现代社会的主要特征是消费而不是储蓄。

Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies.

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贪婪是现代社会的恶疾。

Greed is a disease of modern society.

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暴力犯罪仅仅是困扰现代社会的严重问题之一。

Violent crime is only one of the maladies afflicting modern society.

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Behind this environment are the great social processes of migration and modernization that produced that new urban form, the metropolis.

在这种环境背后是移民和现代化的重大社会进程,所带来的新的城市形式，即大都市。

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All that is solid melts into air," Karl Marx said, evoking the accelerating transformation of modern economic and social life.

正如卡尔马克思所说，“一切坚不可摧的都烟消云散了“,唤起了现代经济和社会生活,产生变革的加速。

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He seems to have known something about the modern economic theory of society long before modern economics was even developed.

而且是公开的驳斥,他似乎已知现代社会的经济原理,且是在现代经济学开始发展之前。

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