我可以想象你检视“古”春宫的场景，要避免任何现代社会的痕迹——或者甚至是一战前的——如果一出现这类痕迹，马上扼杀了兴致。
I imagine you inspecting “vintage” erotica for any hints of the modern world — or even anything post-World War I — that, if found, instantly kill the fantasy.
几十年前，爱尔兰对现代社会培养神甫这一观点满不在乎：教堂都挤满了人。
A couple of decades ago Ireland defied the idea that modern societies grow secular: churches were packed.
不过，今天的现代社会虽然对一种公共健康紧急状态足以应付裕如，但事实上在疾病蔓延前很脆弱。
Yet while today's modern world is much better prepared to deal with a public health emergency, in one respect, it is in fact more vulnerable to contagion.
现代性作为一个功能性的理论概念是对个体和社会形态及其品质由前现代转变成现代之后的现代现象的总体特征的把握与总结。
Modernity as a functional and theoretic conception is a grasp and summary of the shift of individuals and social forms from pre-modernism to postmodernism.
这是实行自公元前4世纪并已发挥了巨大的作用，即使在现代社会。
This has been practised since the 4th century B. C. and has played a great role even in modern society.
直到100年前，日本进入现代社会后，日语才用“率真”一词专门表示自然。 之前根本没必要表达这个概念，因为它已浸在人们的生活中。
The Japanese word for nature, shizen, is a modern one, dating back only a bit more than 100 years, because traditionally there was no need to express the concept.
直到100年前，日本进入现代社会后，日语才用“率真”一词专门表示自然。 之前根本没必要表达这个概念，因为它已浸在人们的生活中。
The Japanese word for nature, shizen, is a modern one, dating back only a bit more than 100 years, because traditionally there was no need to express the concept.
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