Society needed a more dependable instrument of time measurement and found it in the mechanical clock.

社会需要一种更可靠的时间测量仪器，它就是机械钟。

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In modern society, the students who have creative thinking are needed most.

在现代社会中，最需要的是具有创造性思维的学生。

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I know that common workers are also needed by our society.

我知道我们的社会也需要普通工人。

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Its president,Anne Neal, says these areas of knowledge are needed to succeed in a twenty-first century society and an increasingly connected world.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Aristotle went on to say that the justice needed to control this dark side of human nature can be found only in a well ordered society of free people who govern themselves, and the only one that he knew was the Polis of the Greeks.

亚里士多德还说过,正义需要用来,控制人性的丑恶面,只有在公民自治的秩序井然的,社会里才能找得到正义,他所知道的这样的社会就是希腊城邦

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Pope Benedict denounced what he called "the clouds of evil" over Africa that have brought war and ethnic rivalry, reducing the poor to slavery and depriving "future generations of the resources needed to create a more solid and just society."

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

He said the building society needed an injection of capital.

BBC: Building society in crunch talks

"Prison is there to punish people", he said, but society needed to do "far more than we do at the moment to make sure they don't simply start offending all over again".

BBC: Clarke: Prison does not stop crime

The talents of society needed to be mobilised for the good of society and not only in the sciences and in mathematics but also with regard to economic growth and new ideas.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Higher education 'market' warning