Weber said the report recommends fighting poverty and using U.S.political and economic leverage with authoritarian governments to promote democratic reforms and create a middle class and a civil society.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

It became a hierarchical society rooted very deeply in open conceptions of class and obviously open conceptions of race.

南方的阶级社会,深深地植根于,广大的阶级观念上和,普遍的种族观念上

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

One of the discomforts, one of the reasons that I think so many people in society and even in this class are uncomfortable when it comes to computers and intimidated by technology and kind of throw up their hands when things go wrong that you don't understand is frankly not necessarily your fault.

当我想到在社会中，即使在这个班级上,有那么多的人,使用计算机时是不舒服的,他们被这种科技吓到了，束手无策,当发生故障时，你也不知道，其实,这也不是你的过错。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"I think in Japan there was a collective identity as a society where everyone is middle class, everybody shares the same fate, there are not huge, wide disparities of income.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09