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。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But,he'd helped modernize the economy, and he did not restore the church to its old power.

但他推动了经济现代化,他并未让教会重新得势

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

What happened was, Salinas was a Harvard-educated economist; he came in to modernize Mexico and he wanted to privatize things, so he privatized a lot of the banks.

萨利纳斯是哈佛培养出来的经济学家,他支持墨西哥现代化进程,他主张私有化,所以他将一大批银行私有化

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Here is a picture of a cover from the journal--the magazine The Economist who were writing about food and nutrition in modern times and they created this graphic for the website to show the evolution of humans.

这是来自《经济学人》杂志的一篇关于,现代食品和营养的报道,他们为网站制作了这张图,来演示人类的演化过程

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In the language, if I can switch to the language of modern economics, one could say that for Thrasymachus politics is a zero-sum game.

换个领域的词汇，让我用现代经济学的话来说，这可能将，Thrasymachus，式的政治,喻成一场零和游戏。

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