In western society, we have at least two official names, a given name and a surname.

在西方社会，我们至少有两个正式名字，一个名和一个姓。

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Then there is the U.S., where society seems to be cleaving into two groups: Very Important Persons, who don't wait, and Very Impatient Persons, who do—unhappily.

然后是在美国，社会似乎分成了两类：一类是非常重要的人，他们无需等待；另一类是非常没有耐心的人，而不幸的是他们要等待。

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Face-to-face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during the last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dominating factors of contemporary society.

面对面的交流绝不是沟通的唯一形式，在过去的两百年里，大众传播艺术已经成为当代社会的主导因素之一。

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Most historians believe that Etruscan society reached its height more than two thousand five hundred years ago.

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The two are open to persuasion, to consider alternatives, perhaps even radical alternatives, to the society that has nurtured them.

两人都愿接受劝说，并考虑替代性作法,或甚至是极端的替代方案，以改变哺育他们的社会。

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Objection number two, it's not really slavery to tax because at least in a democratic society it's not a slave holder.

第二条反对意见，征税算不上是奴隶制,因为至少在民主社会,不存在奴隶主。

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Otherwise, we're going to become a two-tier society.

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However, the extension of such schemes also risks institutionalising a two-tier society: on the one hand those connected to the conventional economy, and on the other a sub-culture that exists economically and socially outside the conventional economy.

ECONOMIST: The countryside

Some measure of how far the scientific debate has shifted can be gauged from the extensive list of sub-clauses in the title of a two-day Royal Society discussion meeting on exoplanets earlier this week.

BBC: From counting to characterising exoplanets