单项选择题

There is a closer relationship between morals and architecture and interior decoration (61) we suspect. Huxley has pointed out that Western ladies did not take frequent baths (62) they were afraid to see their own naked bodies, and this moral concept delayed the (63) of the modern white-enameled bathtub for centuries. One can understand (64) in the design of old Chinese furniture there was so little consideration for human (65) only when we realize the Confucian atmosphere in which people moved about. Chinese redwood furniture was designed for people to sit (66) in, because that was the only posture approved by society. Even Chinese emperors had to sit on a(n) (67) on which I would not think of (68) for more than five minutes, and for that matter the English kings were just as badly off. Cleopatra went about (69) on a couch carried by servants, because (70) she had never heard of Confucius. If Confucius should have seen her doing that, he would certainly have struck her shins with a stick, as he did (71) one of his old disciples, Yuan Jiang, when the latter was found sitting in an (72) posture. In the Confucian society in which we lived, gentlemen and ladies had to (73) themselves perfectly erect, at least on formal (74) , and any sign of putting one’s leg up would be at once considered a sign of vulgarity and lack of (75) .