1·Alan Macfarlane, professor of anthropological science at King's College, Cambridge has, like other historians, spent decades wrestling with the enigma of the Industrial Revolution.
和其他历史学家一样，剑桥大学国王学院人类学教授艾伦·麦克法兰花了数十年时间，试图解开工业革命的谜团。
2·Ethnologists had a distinct reason for wanting to hear the stories: they were after linguistic or anthropological data that would supplement their own field observations.
人种学家想要听到这些故事是因为他们有一个独特的理由：他们想要语言或人类学的数据，以补充他们自己的实地观察。
3·But now suppose we approach the question from a -i don't say from an empirical point of view but from a speculative anthropological point of view.
现在假设我们从一个特定角度来看这个问题，我不会说从一个经验主义的角度，而是从一个推测的人类学的角度来看。
4·I come from the anthropological perspective, and we want to know what the story is.
斯通金博士说，“我源于人类学的视角，我们想知道这是怎样一回事。”
5·It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously.
对于我来说，每人心中有一个自己的上帝这一人类学观点，我并没有严肃认真地看待。