In its roughest and broadest definition, ethnicity is the understanding that a group of people have a shared cultural origin.

从最粗略和最广泛的定义来看，“ethnicity”是对一群人具有共同文化起源的理解。

To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends.

对于我们拥有共同文化和精神渊源的老盟友，我们宣誓忠实朋友的忠诚。

The vocabulary we inherit carries with it the weight of its cultural origins, embedding in each phrase the values and priorities of the society from which it springs.

我们继承的词汇承载着其文化起源的分量，在每个短语中都嵌入了它所起源的社会的价值观和优先事项。