We do not express these desires in real life because of the rules of polite society.

由于上流社会的规则，我们在现实生活中没有表达出这些欲望。

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The Affluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition.

《富足社会》是一部现代经典著作，因为它帮助定义了人类处境的一个新时刻。

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Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only "sorting mechanism" in society should be profit and the market.

她认为诚信已分崩瓦解，因为大众普遍接受了社会的“分类机制”应该是利益和市场这种观点。

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The popular story is that rich families in Denver society did not accept them because they had been poor and lacked education.

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Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

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Self possession only to a certain extent because I'm living in a society where I have to take account of the people around me.

自我拥有是有限度的,因为我生活在社会上,我必须考虑到周围人的权利。

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Observers believe Beatrix remained on the throne for so long in part because of unrest in Dutch society as the country struggled to assimilate more and more immigrants, mainly Muslims from North Africa, and shifted away from its traditional reputation as one of the world's most tolerant nations.

NPR: Dutch Queen Beatrix Abdicating, Son Will Be King

Given that they think The Great Gatsby is a tale of social mobility and not one of a self-created hero, these two economists seem to think our inequality is the root of all evil, that no one can move in society because the rungs of the ladder are too far apart, so to speak.

FORBES: Paul Krugman Gets Economics Wrong, The Great Gatsby Too

If there is any single cause of the Enron debacle and the current lack of confidence in the marketplace today it is because we, as a society, have gone too far in the direction of tolerating conflicts of interest.

FORBES: An End to 401(k)s (February 1, 2002)