Greed is a disease of modern society.

贪婪是现代社会的恶疾。

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Servants are now almost extinct in modern society.

在现代社会里奴仆已近乎不复存在。

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Violent crime is only one of the maladies afflicting modern society.

暴力犯罪仅仅是困扰现代社会的严重问题之一。

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For Faulkner, Popeye represents everything that is wrong with modern society and its concern with economic capitalism.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

He seems to have known something about the modern economic theory of society long before modern economics was even developed.

而且是公开的驳斥,他似乎已知现代社会的经济原理,且是在现代经济学开始发展之前。

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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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Now private property in a modern society does require government in order to function well.

FORBES: There is Such a Thing as Redistribution

Professor Lloyd said the marine environment represented one of the greatest challenges for modern society.

BBC: Environment Committee

"Gaining more leisure time has been one of modern society's great achievements, " he says.

WSJ: Spain Plans to Burn Its Bridges to Keep Vacationers on the Job