The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.

  • -- Georg Simmel 齐美尔

在历史和当代社会结构中发现的社会形态的最早阶段是这样的:一个相对较小的圆圈与相邻的、陌生的或在某种程度上对立的圆圈紧紧地封闭在一起。

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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

我父母对动物非常宽容。只要我们赚钱买了它们,建造了它们将要生活的任何结构,我们就可以拥有任何我们想要的宠物。如果我们买得起一头犀牛,他们会让我们养的。

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

毫无疑问,由于我所提到的文化在历史和地理上的扩展,我们当代的音乐世界在某种意义上要比早期时期丰富得多。

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

每一种社会形态,通过其每一种物质活动,都对公民整体产生影响;它的每一个思想和理想都赢得了它的地位和力量。

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

这些有钱人对当代音乐很感兴趣。他们想帮助传播它,让别人知道它。

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

年轻的电影制作人应该学会如何处理金钱和权力结构。因为这就像一场战斗。

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

我不相信社会平等,他们知道这一点。