In western society, we have at least two official names, a given name and a surname.

在西方社会，我们至少有两个正式名字，一个名和一个姓。

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Then there is the U.S., where society seems to be cleaving into two groups: Very Important Persons, who don't wait, and Very Impatient Persons, who do—unhappily.

然后是在美国，社会似乎分成了两类：一类是非常重要的人，他们无需等待；另一类是非常没有耐心的人，而不幸的是他们要等待。

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This is ambitious in any circumstances, and in a divided and unequal society the two ideals can clash outright.

在任何情况下，这两种理想都难以实现，并且在一个分裂的和不平等的社会中，它们可能直接发生冲突。

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Most historians believe that Etruscan society reached its height more than two thousand five hundred years ago.

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The two are open to persuasion, to consider alternatives, perhaps even radical alternatives, to the society that has nurtured them.

两人都愿接受劝说，并考虑替代性作法,或甚至是极端的替代方案，以改变哺育他们的社会。

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Objection number two, it's not really slavery to tax because at least in a democratic society it's not a slave holder.

第二条反对意见，征税算不上是奴隶制,因为至少在民主社会,不存在奴隶主。

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China may just skip the middle, or middle class, stage and go directly to solidifying a two-tiered society.

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Otherwise, we're going to become a two-tier society.

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However, the extension of such schemes also risks institutionalising a two-tier society: on the one hand those connected to the conventional economy, and on the other a sub-culture that exists economically and socially outside the conventional economy.

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