We all know that science plays an important role in the societies in which we live.

我们都知道科学在我们生活的社会中扮演着重要的角色。

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Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and criticise.

否则，学者们将继续以类似的危险方式思考，越来越脱离他们所研究、调查和批评的社会。

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You begin to see the societies as both an outsider and an insider.

你开始以局外人和局内人来看待这两个社会。

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are also regimes that are seen increasingly by their own populace as either illegitimate or repressive or disconnected from the societies they claim to represent."

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The city and soul analogy could be seen then as an attempt to understand how societies reproduce themselves, and how they shape citizens who again in turn shape the societies in which they inhabit.

城市与灵魂的比拟,可以视为是尝试了解,社会如何自我复制，及形塑公民,后者相对地,也在形塑他们所居住的社会。

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In patriarchal societies there tends to be an inordinate degree of interest placed on the virginity of young women.

在父权社会里,对于年轻女性的贞操,人们有着极大的兴趣。

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Education is simply the best investment in the societies and economies we want and need.

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They give universities a chance to pay back some of their debt to the societies that nurture them.

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Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and criticise.

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