A preliterate society, their menus display pictures of the food they offer.

一个未识社会，他们菜单上他们提供食物图片。

In many preliterate cultures, solitude is thought to be so intolerable that a person makes a great effort never to be alone.

在许多前化中，独处被认为是如此难以忍受，以至于人们会努力避免独自一人。

Many ethnographic accounts suggest that built-in psychic entropy is more common in preliterate cultures than the myth of the noble savage would suggest.

许多民族志资表明，内在心理熵在前化中比“高贵野蛮人”这一神话所暗更为普遍。

While all those types of information were also transmitted by other means in preliterate societies, writing made the transmission easier, more detailed, more accurate, and more persuasive.

虽然所有这些类型信息在没有社会中也通过其他方式传播，但书写使传播变得更容易、更详细、更准确和更有说服力。

The myth of the happy savage is based on the observation that when free of external threats, preliterate people often display a serenity that seems enviable to the visitor from more differentiated cultures.

快乐野蛮人神话基于这样观察：当没有外部威胁时，前社会人们常常表现出一种令人羡慕宁静， 这种宁静对于来自更为复杂化背景访客来说显得尤为可贵。