The culture of the Imperium can be said to be cosmopolitan in that no two worlds are exactly alike. Making all these disparate cultures into one that owes fealty to one source — Terra — is in itself difficult. Some general statements may be made, but the scale and variety of the Imperium defies even these.
帝国的文化可以说是世界性的，因为没有两个世界是完全相同的。将所有这些不同的文化整合为一个对一个源头 — 泰拉 — 忠诚的文化本身就很困难。可以做出一些一般性的陈述，但帝国的规模和多样性甚至超越了这些。
Language 语言
Unlike currency, there is a unifying language to the Imperium: High Gothic and Low Gothic. High Gothic (and a technical dialect known as "Tech") is the first language on a large minority of worlds, a well-known second language on still more. In the greater Imperium, High Gothic is largely unknown, and is mainly used formally, as in pious benedictions or between adepts, as High Gothic has remained uniform throughout the Imperium.
与货币不同，帝国有一种统一的语言：高哥特语和低哥特语。高哥特语（以及一种被称为“技术语”的技术方言）是世界上极少数人的第一语言，更是著名的第二语言。在更大的帝国，高哥特语在很大程度上是不出名的，主要是正式场合使用的，如在虔诚的祝祷中或在专家之间使用，因为高哥特语一直在整个帝国保持统一。
Throughout much of the Imperium, Low Gothic is the lingua franca, and it has developed a large number of local dialects, lexicons, and accents throughout the Imperium. All variations of Low Gothic have their roots in the proto-Gothic language used during the early Age of Expansion. The Nalsheen and the Sleepwalkers of Gereon use one such Old Gothic-based dialect. Very few feral and feudal worlds have native High Gothic speakers.
在帝国的大部分地区，低哥特语是通用语，它在整个帝国中发展了大量的当地方言、词汇和口音。低哥特语的所有变体都源于扩张时代早期使用的原始哥特语。纳尔辛和格里昂的梦游者使用了一种基于古哥特语的方言。很少有蛮荒和封建世界有讲高哥特语的人。
The Adeptus Mechanicus, while cognisant of the Gothic languages, will more readily use their own collection of languages known as Cant Mechanicus.
机械神教虽然熟悉哥特语，但更愿意使用他们自己的语言集，即机械之语。
There also exist a number of sign languages, whose origins range from the ritualistic Thoughtmark of the Sisters of Silence to the battlefield-born Battle-Signs of the Astartes.
也存在许多手语，其起源范围从寂静修女的仪式思想印记到阿斯塔特在诞生于战场的战斗手语。
Literature 文学
Many types of literature exist in the Imperium. Treatises, monographs, textbooks and other texts are written about a multitude of subjects such as natural philosophy, planetary histories, law and religion. Less serious reading exists as well in the forms of poetry, fiction and pornography.
帝国中存在许多类型的文学。论文、专著、课本和其他文本都是关于自然哲学、行星历史、法律和宗教等众多学科的。不那么严肃的阅读也存在于诗歌、小说和情色作品中。
While physical books do exist in the Imperium, most people don’t read physical books printed on paper. Fewer than one in thirty thousand people ever read anything that isn’t on a slate or a devotional pamphlet. Still, paper is used and produced on many Imperial worlds although the animal-hide-based vellum is the most commonly used material for record keeping. Vellum is cheaper and more durable than normal paper or other forms of storing information.
虽然帝国中确实存在实体书，但大多数人不会阅读印在纸上的实体书。不到三万分之一的人读过任何不在石板或祈祷手册上的东西。尽管如此，许多帝国世界仍在使用和生产纸张，尽管基于动物皮的羊皮纸是记录保存最常用的材料。羊皮纸比普通纸张或其他形式的存储信息更便宜、更耐用。
The Imperium and its various organisations are known to keep their important records in their own libraries and archives. These repositories of knowledge vary in size, from a municipal or an important individual’s personal library to entire archive-worlds. Bookshops exist as well in the Imperium.
众所周知，帝国及其各个组织将重要记录保存在自己的图书馆和档案馆中。这些知识库的规模各不相同，从地方或重要个人的个人图书馆到整个档案世界。帝国也存在书店。
Two examples of famous Imperial literature are "The Spheres of Longing" written by the Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor and "Reflections and Odes" written by the Remembrancer-poet Ignace Karkasy.
著名的帝国文学有两个例子，一个是审判官吉迪恩·拉文诺写的《渴望之域》，另一个是记述者诗人伊格纳斯·卡尔卡西写的《反思与颂歌》。
Known Writers 已知作家
Leopold Cadmus — poet.
利奥波德·卡德摩斯 — 诗人
Eurykidas DeMartos — saga-poet.
欧里基达斯·德马托斯 — 传奇诗人
Dolvar — historian.
多瓦尔 — 历史学家
Dubyankha — poet.
杜边卡 — 诗人
Kallista Eris — historiographer.
卡莉斯塔·厄里斯 — 历史学家
Ceris Gonn — historian.
塞里斯·冈恩 — 历史学家
Gregorus of Okassis — poet.
奥卡西斯的格雷戈鲁斯 — 诗人
Hari Harr — historian.
哈里·哈尔 — 历史学家
Mahavastu Kallimakus — documentarist.
马哈瓦斯图·卡里马库斯 — 记述者
Ignace Karkasy — poet.
伊格纳斯·卡尔卡西 — 诗人
Nictu — poet.
尼克图 — 诗人
Mersadie Oliton — documentarist.
梅尔萨迪·奥利顿 — 记述者
Gideon Ravenor — inquisitor.
吉迪恩·拉文诺 — 审判官
Kyril Sindermann — historian.
基里尔·辛德曼 — 历史学家
Lackland Thorn — documentarist.
莱克兰·索恩 — 记述者
Petronella Vivar — documentarist.
佩特罗内拉·维瓦尔 — 记述者
Solomon Voss — wordsmith.
所罗门·沃斯 — 词匠
Religion 宗教
In the 41st Millennium, the standard religion of the Imperium is the Imperial Cult. The cult venerates the Emperor as a divine being, borne out by a number of miracles and saints in his name. Variations of this cult appear across the galaxy, and the Adeptus Terra investigates some of them to ensure that they do indeed pay fealty to the Immortal Master of Mankind. Note that not all of humanity's defenders worship the Emperor in the same manner: for instance, some of the Adeptus Astartes chapters' beliefs would be heretical for an ordinary citizen to hold.
在41个千年，帝国的标准宗教是帝国教派。该教派将帝皇视为神圣的存在，以他的名义出现的许多奇迹和圣人都证明了这一点。这种崇拜的变体出现在银河系的各个角落，中央政务部对其中一些进行了调查，以确保他们确实向不朽的人类之主效忠。请注意，并非所有人类的守卫者都以同样的方式崇拜帝皇：例如，对于一个普通平民来说，的某些阿斯塔特战团的信仰是异端。
Unfortunately for humankind, there are other gods that demand worship. Warp entities require tribute in order to remain in the physical realm, while still others venerate aliens. These deviant cults are the maggot-ridden underbelly of human culture, and it is the role of humankind's best investigators to root them out and burn them before they infest the rest of the species.
不幸的是，对人类来说，还有其他需要崇拜的神。亚空间实体需要祭品才能留在物质领域，而还有一些则敬仰异型。这些异常教派是人类文化中蛆虫横行的软肋，人类最好的调查者的作用是在它们感染其他物种之前将其根除并烧毁。
Media 媒体
Mass media, rigidly controlled by the Ecclesiarchy and the state, is usually political or religious in nature, forcing many to find other sources of entertainment.
由国教和国家严格控制的大众媒体通常具有政治或宗教性质，迫使许多人寻找其他娱乐来源。
There exist holodramas, presumably audiovisual narratives that can be watched thanks to some form of Hololithic Projector. Examples include:
存在全息戏剧，可能是由于某种形式的全息投影仪而可以观看的视听叙事。示例包括：
Attack Run 进入攻击
Cain's Heroes 凯恩的英雄
Entertainment 娱乐
Most recreation is achieved through religious festivals, music, and drinking. Many, particularly those who can not find fulfillment outside of worship to the Emperor, resort to drug use to escape the reality of their lives. There are parks and shows for the nobility, but these are too expensive for a commoner to enjoy. Circuses and traveling fairs exist in the Imperium as well. On particular regressive worlds, gladiatorial combat may be used for entertainment.
大多数娱乐活动都是通过宗教节日、音乐和饮酒来实现的。许多人，尤其是那些在崇拜帝皇之外找不到满足感的人，为了逃避现实生活而吸毒。有对贵族的运动场和表演，但这些对平民来说太贵了。帝国也有马戏团和移动集市。在特定的退化世界中，角斗士格斗可能被用于娱乐。
Celebrations 庆祝活动
The Imperium has several church- and state-ordained commemorations to mark significant events in its history, or to reinforce its imagined community:
帝国有几个教会和国家指定的纪念活动，以纪念其历史上的重大事件，或加强其构想的社区：
The Burning of Sins 罪的燃烧
Candlemas - a feast day 圣烛节 - 宗教节日
Emperor's Day 帝皇日
The Feast of the Emperor's Ascension 帝皇升天节
The Feast of the Primarch's Rebirth 原体重生节
The Festival of Saints 圣人节
The Festival of the Heart 心之节
Heart Day 心脏日
Sanguinala 圣吉列斯节
More place- or people-specific celebrations include:
更多针对特定地点或人群的庆祝活动包括：
The Blessing of the Wound — Neva
创伤赐福 — 涅瓦
Drusus Day — Calixis Sector
德鲁苏斯日 — 卡利西斯星区
The Emperor's Gift — Undetermined number of planets.
帝皇之礼 — 行星的数量尚未确定。
The Feast of the Leaves — Tanith
树叶节 — 塔尼斯
Firing Day — Volkus. Annual firing of the Big Gun.
开火日 — 沃尔库斯。大炮的年度射击。
The Grand Hootmanay — Dunroamin VI
大胡特马内 — 安居六号
The Great Toasting of Russ — Space Wolves
鲁斯的伟大祝酒 — 太空野狼
Komaris Memorial Feast — Moebian Domain
科马里斯纪念节 — 莫比安领域
Severance Day — Moebian Domain
断绝日 — 莫比安领域
St. Angevin's Day — Sepheris Secundus
圣安茹之日 — 塞菲里斯二号
Games 游戏
Blind Quarter 盲区
Dagger Counts 匕首计数
Darktown Whist, card game
暗镇惠斯特牌，纸牌游戏
Covenants, card game
契约，纸牌游戏
Devils and Dames Solo, card game
魔鬼与女士独奏，纸牌游戏
Emperor's Ante 帝皇的赌注
Five-Card Raekis 五卡雷基斯
Go 围棋
Hearts and Titans, card game
心脏与泰坦，纸牌游戏
Hnefatafl, board game popular amongst Fenrisians
维京象棋，在芬里斯人中流行的棋类游戏
Knights and Knaves, card game
骑士与无赖，纸牌游戏
Rajet 拉杰特
Regicide, board game
弑君，棋类游戏
Shonk, card game
骗局，纸牌游戏
Sickles, card game
镰刀，，纸牌游戏
Ullatur, board game
乌拉图尔，棋类游戏
Music 音乐
Instruments 乐器
Accordion 手风琴
Glavian lyre 格拉维安七弦琴
Grim-harpsicord 冷酷大键琴
Jovian Thunderdrum 木星雷霆鼓
Lutya 卢蒂亚
Praetorian Guard's musical instrument 禁卫军的乐器
Tanith Pipes 塔尼斯管
Violata 维奥拉塔
Compositions 作品
The Ballad of Trooper Thom 士兵汤姆之歌
Barbarossa Hymnal 巴巴罗萨圣歌集
Behold! The Triumph of Terra 看啊！泰拉大捷
The Brothers of Ultramar 奥特拉玛兄弟
The Dark Path of the Forest 森林的黑暗之路
Euan Fairlow's March 尤安·费尔洛的行军
Holy Triumph of the Golden Throne 黄金王座的神圣大捷
March of the Primarchs 原体的行军
My Love Waits in the Nalwoods Green 我的爱在纳尔伍德的绿意中等待
Ode to Terra 泰拉颂歌
Over the Sky and Far Away 天空之上和远方
Pride of Joura 乔拉之傲
Splendid Men of the Imperium, Stand Up and Fight 帝国的辉煌之人，起身战斗
Summer Garden Allegro 夏季花园快板
Te Imperius Deum Laudamus 赞美帝国之主
The Symphony of Banished Night 放逐之夜交响曲
Symphony of the Eldest Season 最古之季交响曲
Waltrab's Wilde 沃尔特拉布的荒野
Known Composers 已知作曲家
Bach 巴赫
Cavaleri 卡瓦莱里
Francesci 弗朗西斯
Hauptmann 豪普特曼
Elinor Herglitax-Wessom
埃莉诺·赫格利塔克斯-韦索姆，
Bequa Kynska 贝夸·金斯卡
Luienna 露艾娜
Rhianna Sorel 蕾安娜·索雷尔
Known Dramaturges 已知剧作家
Shakespire 沙克斯庇尔
Gorso 戈尔索
Philaken 菲拉肯
Plastic Arts 造型艺术
Known Artists 已知艺术家
Serena d'Angelus, painter.
塞雷娜·德'安杰勒斯，画家
Ostian Delafour, sculptor.
奥斯提安·德拉福尔，雕刻家
Heydosia, sculptor.
海多西亚，雕刻家
Kelan Roget 凯兰·罗杰
Marsin, painter.
马尔辛，画家
Askarid Sha, illuminator and calligraphist.
阿斯卡里德·沙，启明者和书法家。
Jeshua Thoru, sculptor.
约书亚·托鲁，雕刻家
Deloriuos Khorresact, archaeotect.
德洛里奥斯·科雷斯阿克特，考古建筑师
Known Styles 已知风格
Post-Akkadian Gothic - A style of architecture. Lauded examples include the Cardophian Repository, established in late M36.
后阿卡德哥特式 - 建筑风格。备受赞誉的例子包括M36晚期建立的卡多菲安仓库。
Currency 货币
Many types of currency in the Imperium exist, such as Credits, Crowns, Aquilas, Thrones, Scrip and ecclesiarchy-certified tithe beads. Often goods, resources, and manpower are substituted as currency on a planetary level.
帝国中存在许多类型的货币，如信誉币、王冠币、天鹰币、王座币、代币和教会认证的什一税念珠。通常，商品、资源和人力在全球范围内被替代为货币。
Technology 技术
Since the end of the epoch known as the Dark Age of Technology, mankind's technological level has regressed. The Imperium is largely reliant on maintaining technologies from the Dark Age - such as the warp drive — which are vital to its continued operation, but which are little understood and cannot be replicated.
自黑暗技术时代结束以来，人类的技术水平已经倒退。帝国在很大程度上依赖于维护黑暗时代的技术，如亚空间驱动，这对其持续运作至关重要，但人们对其知之甚少，也无法复制。
Transmission systems 传输系统
Electricity is the single most important means of transporting energy from one place to another in the 41st millennium.. However, some of the technologies within the Imperium rely upon Photon Lines (a refined development of fibre optic cable), Phased Crystals (to transport information), hydroplastics (which generate power through pressure), Sucrosol (an abbreviation of Sucrose based solution, a synthetic 'blood' that allows bio-engineered parts to be maintained, it is usually white) or radio signals (utilising radio bandwidths previously unavailable).
在第41个千年里，电力是将能源从一个地方输送到另一个地方的唯一最重要的手段。然而，帝国内部的一些技术依赖于光子线（光纤电缆的改进发展）、相位晶体（传输信息）、水塑塑料（通过压力产生电力）、蔗糖醇（蔗糖基溶液的缩写，一种允许维持生物工程部件的合成“血液”，通常是白色的）或无线电信号（利用以前不可用的无线电带宽）。
Generation systems 发电系统
Crystal Batteries — Based on engineered crystals whose structure changes as they absorb energy, slowly releasing it as they progressively recover their original form.
晶体电池 — 基于合成晶体，其结构在吸收能量时会发生变化，并在逐渐恢复原始形态时缓慢释放。
Plasma-generators — Ionized matter contained in a magnetic field. Potentially volatile.
等离子发生器 — 磁场中包含的电离物质。可能不稳定。
Conventional — Wind, tides, sun, steam, friction, animal and so on.
常规 — 风、潮汐、太阳、蒸汽、摩擦、动物等等。
Bionics 仿生
Bionics are used throughout the Imperium, though with no real standard to make or quality. They are commonly used to repair severely wounded soldiers, although there are many other applications. High-ranking officials of the Imperium such as Adepts and members of the Inquisition are most likely to have high-quality bionics. Generally, they represent a special acquisition and would not conceivably be available to the poor or even moderately well-off.
整个帝国都在使用仿生，尽管没有真正的标准或质量。它们通常用于修补重伤的士兵，尽管还有许多其他应用。帝国的高级官员，如专家和审判庭的成员，最有可能拥有高质量的仿生。一般来说，它们代表了一种特殊的购置，穷人甚至中等富裕的人都无法获得。
Generally speaking, bionics are available to soldiers of the Imperium, including guardsmen (such as Domor from the Tanith First regiment), and Space Marines. They are also available to other servants of the Emperor of rank, and to the rich (such as Captain Maxilla of the Essene).
一般来说，仿生可供帝国的士兵使用，包括卫兵（如塔尼斯第一兵团的多莫尔）和星际战士。它们也可供帝皇的其他仆人和富人（如艾赛尼的马克西拉船长）使用。
Standard Template Constructs 标准模板结构
A Standard Template Construct (STC) is a system created in the Dark Age of Technology to assist colonists in creating and maintaining technologies vital to survival on new planets. In the current era of the Imperium, very few exist. The Adeptus Mechanicus is constantly searching for any rumour of an STC as part of their "Quest for Knowledge."
标准模板构造（STC）是在黑暗技术时代创建的一个系统，旨在帮助殖民者创建和维护对在新行星上生存至关重要的技术。在当今帝国时代很少存在。作为他们“寻求知识”的一部分，机械神教一直在寻找任何关于STC的谣言
Data Collection and Storage 数据收集和存储
Traditional record keeping tools — ink, quills, parchment, paper — coexist with more advanced forms of information technology:
传统的记录工具 — 墨水、羽毛笔、羊皮纸、纸张 — 与更先进的信息技术共存：
Cogitator 沉思者
Data-Crystal 数据晶体
Data-slate 数据板
Music Box 音乐盒
Pict Recorder 图片记录仪
Sanctus-astrogator 神圣星界导航
Vid-Corder 视频记录仪
Vid-Imager 视频成像仪
Vox-slate 音阵板
Medical Science 医学
Public health is overseen by the Officio Medicae, a division of the Adeptus Administratum, and various agencies have their own corps of chiurgeons. While the wealthy and powerful have access to Juvenat treatments to prolong their life expectancy, ordinary citizens must do with levels of medical science ranging from leeches and herbs to treatment in fully equipped hospitals depending on their world's technological level and personal status.
公共医疗由内务部下属的医疗部监督，各机构都有自己的外科医生团队。虽然富人和有权势的人可以获得回春疗法来延长他们的预期寿命，但普通平民必须接受从水蛭和草药到设备齐全的医院的医疗科学水平，这取决于他们的世界技术水平和个人状况。
Medication 药物
Acetazolamide 乙酰唑胺
Aeldramol 艾尔德拉莫尔
Ataraxics 镇静剂
Calming Balsam 舒缓香膏
Mascetamine 马斯科塔胺
Morpholox 莫弗洛克斯
Morphomycin 莫弗霉素
Pain suppressants 止痛药
Panimune 帕尼莫
Rainbow 彩虹
Solipsus 索利普索斯
Somna 索姆纳
Vulgate oxybarbital 通行氧巴比妥
Zendocaine 曾多卡因
Industry 工业
Industrial Equipment 工业设备
Aqua-Harvesting Rig 水收割钻机
Colossus-class Melta ship 巨像级熔融舰
Delving-Spike 钻刺
Filter Rig 过滤钻机
Gas-Extractor Tower 气体提取塔
Gun Rig 喷射钻机
Loggernaut 伐木机
Macro-trawler 大型拖网渔船
Mega-harvester 巨型收割机
Sonic Drill 声波钻机
Spindlerig 长杆钻机
Tectonic Fragdrill 构造破片钻
Materials Extracted or Processed 提取或加工的材料
Bauxanium 铝土
Dacite 英安岩
Diamonite 金刚石
Diorite 闪长岩
Fascium 法西厄姆
Trans-Sulphur 反式硫
Trivia 琐事
High Gothic is represented in most editions of 40k as a "latinised" form of English, which enrages Latin scholar fans of the game still, some still complaining that the book Deus Encarmine should instead have been called Deux Encarmine (See Black Library forum).
在40k的大多数版本中，高哥特语被表示为一种“拉丁化”的英语形式，这仍然激怒了该游戏的拉丁语学者粉丝，一些人仍然抱怨《Deus Encarmine》一书应该被称为《Deux Encarmine（见黑色图书馆论坛）》。
The prestige of bionics has wavered through the editions of Warhammer 40,000. In the 1st edition, bionics were a fairly broad selection of gear and equipment, including such devices as tendril sensors and bionic limbs. By third and fourth edition, with the focus coming much more as a large-scale warfare game, the role of bionics has diminished to giving only minimal advantages.
仿生的重要性在战锤40000的版本中动摇了。在第一版中，仿生是一种相当广泛的装备和设备，包括卷须传感器和仿生肢体等装置。到了第三版和第四版，随着重点更多地放在大型战争游戏上，仿生的作用已经减弱，只提供了最小的优势。
