每天一小段英语（98）

命运号角

Evolution does everything for a reason, and to understand the origin of this particular insanity, let’s back up for a minute to 50,000BC in

Ethiopia

, where your Great 2,000 Grandfather lived as part of a small

tribe

.
每一次演化都有原因，要理解这种风靡的起源，让我们用1分钟说说公元前5w年前的埃塞俄比亚，2000祖先住在一个小部落里。

Back then

, being part of a tribe was critical to survival. A tribe meant food and protection in a time when neither was easy to

come by

. So for your Great 2,000 Grandfather, almost nothing in the world was more important than being accepted by his fellow tribe members, especially those in positions of authority. Fitting in with those around him and pleasing those above him meant he could stay in the tribe, and about the worst nightmare he could imagine would be people in the tribe starting to whisper about how annoying or unproductive or weird he was—because if enough people disapproved of him, his ranking within the tribe would drop, and if it got really bad, he’d be kicked out altogether and left for dead. He also knew that if he ever embarrassed himself by

pursuing

a girl in the tribe and being rejected, she’d tell the other girls about it—not only would he have blown his chance with that girl, but he might never have a mate at all now because every girl that would ever be in his life knew about his

lame

, failed attempt. Being socially accepted was everything.
那时候成为部落一员是生存的关键，部落意味着食物和安全第一时间得到保障。对2000祖先来说，那个世界里被其他部落成员接受是最重要的，尤其是那些处于权威位置的。适应周围的一切，取悦上级才能继续待在部落里，而能想到的最糟糕的就是别人在背后说自己烦人没用或者不可思议，因为有人不喜欢自己，自己宰部落的地位就会下降，更严重自己会被逐出部落等死。部落里追女孩被拒绝更是尴尬，这女孩会告诉别的女孩这件事，不止自己和那女孩在一起的机会破灭了，也会因为每个女孩知道自己的差劲和失败的尝试而失去配偶。反正被普遍接受就是真理。

命运号角

Back then
当时

命运号角

pursuing
n. 追求；追逐；追赶
v. 从事；追赶（pursue的ing形式）

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eing part of a tribe was critical to survival. A tribe meant food and protection in a time when neither was easy to come by

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