He was very interested in economics, and he wanted to understand how the social structures of capitalism and the economic structures of capitalism impinged upon the way personalities were formed.

其中，他对经济学又颇有研究，一直致力于解析,资本主义的社会结构,和经济架构如何改变一个人。

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And then you have other social structures of any city-state.

城邦还有其他一些社会机构。

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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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