We do not express these desires in real life because of the rules of polite society.

由于上流社会的规则，我们在现实生活中没有表达出这些欲望。

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Others put it more bluntly: "an armed society is a polite society".

有人则更露骨“武装的社会就是文明的社会。”

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He lives by a set of rules polite society doesn't understand, and therefore fears.

他为他的生存法则而活。这套法则，儒雅社会永远不会懂，由此众人害怕。

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The means by which sugar lumps arrived on tables in polite society were carefully hidden.

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To the contrary, polite society tolerates even the most harsh and stereotypical, so long as it involves Republicans.

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But even when the east Europeans have departed, debating the merits of immigration will no longer be off-limits in polite society.

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