The number of homeless people is a telling comment on the state of society.

无家可归者的数量是社会状况的生动写照。

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She actually wanted to reconstruct the state and transform society.

她其实想改造这个国家并完全改变社会。

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Our society is in a state of flux.

我们的社会在不断演变。

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That is already being done, says Dr.Bawa Ahmed Abimiku, the president of the Nigerian Cancer Society and the chief medical officer at Federal Medical Center in Keffi,Nassarawa state.

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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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In fact, we can never be fully free of the fear and of the anxiety and uncertainty of the state of nature, even within to some degree of fully constituted civil society.

实际上，我们完全可以,脱离恐惧焦虑和,对自然状态的不确定,甚至在一定程度上可以摆脱完全文明的社会。

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David Lifson, president of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, said that in his view, the House tax bill isn't really tax policy.

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On Friday January 28, 2011, I moderated a briefing for the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) on the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial services regulatory reform bill.

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Like so many diseases it is indicative of the state of society as much as it is of the individual.

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