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社会
Societies
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
社会可能会被埋藏在地下的丑陋所压垮。
Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
当然，在自由社会中可能存在严重的不公正。
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
自由社会是持不同意见的权利得到保护的社会。
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
家庭是所有社会的托儿所;人类的第一次组合。
Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
聪明不是重罪，但大多数社会认为至少是轻罪。
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
垄断控制在自由社会中是例外;在封闭的社会里，它们一直是规则。
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
有非常有力的历史数据表明，社会的增长方式是通过大规模的长期投资实现的。
People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
人们不知道过去，即使我们生活在有文化的社会里，因为他们不相信过去的来源。
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
所有濒于死亡的社会都是男性社会。一个社会只能靠一个人生存;没有一个社会能在缺少妇女的情况下生存。
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.
小说写作、阅读和购书，一直都是一小部分人的活动，即使是在受教育程度最高的社会中也是如此。
Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.
人口统计学正在改变我们，因为我们是更古老的社会，我们的寿命更长。这几代人如何平衡彼此，如何影响教育和医疗保健。
Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.
由于我们复杂的社会极易受到干扰和事故的影响，它们当然为迅速中断正常活动提供了理想的机会。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
当然，作为孩子，我们所有人，在所有的文化和社会中，通过观察、模仿和各种各样的鼓励来学习行为。所以根据这个建议，我们大多数时候都在“假装”。