然而，在美国社会，阶级结构没有那么严格；有些人很轻易地就改变了职业，并认为提高他们的社会和经济地位是他们自己的责任。

In American society, however, the class structure was less rigid; some people changed occupations easily and believed it was their duty to improve their social and economic position.

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在本课程中，我们希望从社会和历史背景的整体结构来看文学。

In this course we hope to look at literature in the frame of its social and historical context.

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这就是我写这本书的原因，这本书主要讨论的是在未来社会，当技术给我们曾经认为高收入的工作带来破坏性的变化的时候，应该如何重新规划未来的经济结构。

That's why I wrote this book, which is about how to reorganize the economy for the future when technology brings about destructive changes to what we used to consider high-income work.

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But the period of absolute rule really begins in the mid-seventeenth century, and is to be found in those states that had specific kinds of social structures.

但是绝对主义实际上起源于十七世纪中叶,［absolutism普遍的翻译为绝对主义或者绝对君主制］ 而且只出现在那些有着特定社会结构的国家里

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