1.One of these premodern attachment-dis-couraging practices was to leave infants unnamed until they had survived into the second year.
现代文明之前，一种减少对婴儿依恋的做法就是在婴儿存活到第二年才给其取名字。
2.One of these premodern attachment-discouraging practices was to leave infants unnamed until they had survived into the second year.
其中的一个前现代的附件，沮丧的做法是不具名假婴儿，直到他们幸存的第二个年头。
3.As a historian, however, I cannot let pass unchallenged the characterization of premodern Chinese political culture as "meritocratic. "
但是，但是作为一名历史学家，对于将中国前现代政治文化形容为“任人唯贤”的说法，我不能视而不见，不去反驳。
4.So you seem to have one foot in the premodern world and one foot in the postmodern world.
以此看来你是一脚踏在传统社会，一脚踩在后现代社会。
5.Of late, one of her subjects has been premodern mothers among the Sami people of Finland, who are famous for their reindeer herding.
而她研究的对象之一，是芬兰工业化之前以放牧驯鹿闻名的萨米族的母亲。
6.In this densely forested country, wood was the most important building material up to the premodern age.
在这个密林遍布的国家，在近代以前，木材是最重要的建筑材料。
7.In premodern times, many Chinese villages (especially those living close to rivers) had temples dedicated to their local "dragon king. "
在近代时期，许多中国的村落（尤其靠河川居住的那些人）专心建寺庙祭祀他们当地的“龙王”。
8.Premodern Chinese culture has not a major thrust of the changes, but it also caused the Chinese culture itself is too arrogant mentality.
近代以前中华文化的主旨不曾发生大的变迁，但这也就造成中华文化自身过于自大的心理。
9.This dramatic increase of population fomented and fueled an economic revolution in premodern China.
人口的急剧增加引发了古代中国的一场经济革命。
10.Of all the civilizations of premodern times, none appeared more advanced, none felt more superior, than that of China.
在近代以前时期的所有文明中，没有一个国家的文明比中国文明更发达，更先进。