有时人们把学校看成仅仅是把尽可能多的知识传递给成长中的一代的工具。
Sometimes one sees in the school simply the instrument for transferring a certain maximum quantity of knowledge to the growing generation.
对成长中的一代人来说,相关的问题不是我们的社会是否完美(我们可以想当然地认为是这样),而是应该如何去应付它。
The relevant question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with it.
现在这一代的独居者是在欧洲从社会民主主义向更尖锐、更个人主义的美国式资本主义倾向转变的过程中成长起来的。
The current generation of home-aloners came of age during Europe's shift from social democracy to the sharper, more individualistic climate of American-style capitalism.
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