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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So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

莱温斯基丑闻之后,一切都变了,我们从用圣经来解决我们这个时代的道德问题,社会问题,到我们这个时代的道德问题,非常个人化。我一直保持着这种关系,直到现在。

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

委员会的性质是有机的而不是机械的:它不是一个结构,而是一个工厂。它生根、成长、开花、枯萎、死亡,播下的种子将由其他委员会轮流开花。

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

从完全“当下”的意义上讲,当代小说是不可能的,因为小说可能要花好几年的时间来写,所以小说开头的“现在”在写完的时候就已经不存在了。

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

我不擅长社交,我不经常去参加聚会,篮球比赛,足球比赛,大型社交场合。

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

在当代电影中,有一个曲折的结局是非常流行的。

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

一切都是感官的,我从来没有在任何东西里看到过结构。