There is this social context of race relations whose grammar he is also learning, and I would just remind you of the passage where he starts to ask his mother about whether his granny is white or not.

一种来自家庭无可绘状的影响,当时社会的种族对立，对他学习的语言也有很深的影响,各位看一下当他问母亲,祖母是白人还是黑人？

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Is it a social context? Is it a literary one?

社会环境？文学环境？

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They've been very influential in teaching us how much of things we should eat, and look at that in this commercial that you're about to see, and also, the social context of this.

他们在教育我们吃多少东西方面,十分具有影响力,仔细观察接下来给你们看的广告,想想这其中蕴含的社会背景因素

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