"When I was reared in the British West Indies my grandmother used to always tell me, you may not be loved by certain forces in a society and you have to understand why.

VOA: special.2011.03.20

The modern state, as we have come to understand it, is based upon the separation of civil society from governing authority.

我们所了解的现代国家，是根据,区隔公民社会与统治当局的角度来看。

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The polis, as Aristotle as well as Plato clearly understand, is a small society, what could be called today a closed society.

如亚里士多德及柏拉图清楚明白,是一个小型的社会，即今日所称的封闭社会。

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"I think that survey shows that, as minorities and women pursue a STEM career, they have to face a number of barriers along the pipeline (SAYING...) and what we need to do as a society is really understand what these roadblocks are."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

We, too, understand the relevance of what we call "the society function."] Rather it must be elucidated in its full extent through the problem of the evolution of literature.

你们不要以为我们很幼稚,我们也明白社会功能的意义是什么],但是我们必须用,文学进化的角度来解释它的功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Another thing that you need to understand about these farms, if you're going to grasp their significance for the society that will come, is that they are small, really small.

关于这些农场,另一点要搞清楚的是,如果你要理解它们,所带来的社会意义,那是很细微和缓慢的

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