A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
社会
Society
Social peace requires reciprocity.
社会和平需要互惠。
From our myopia arose our dystopia.
我们的近视引起了我们的反乌托邦。
The world has gotten so interwoven.
世界变得如此错综复杂。
Here all were noble, save Nobility.
除了贵族之外，这里都是贵族。
My generation is under-entertained.
我们这一代人缺乏娱乐。
A single tree doesn't make a forest.
一棵树成不了一片森林。
We need a greening of globalisation.
我们需要绿化全球化。
Headlines pass; breadlines continue.
标题;排队继续。
I'm interested in social commentary.
我对社会评论很感兴趣。
This is a question of social control.
这是一个社会控制的问题。
Words are the bugles of social change.
语言是社会变革的号角。
I look upon all the world as my parish.
我把全世界看作我的教区。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.
那些出生在贫困或社会边缘的人需要我们额外的支持来实现他们的梦想。
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
民意调查就像花园里的孩子，总是把东西挖出来看看它们是如何生长的。
If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.
如果我们在未来一二十年里不主动控制人口增长，大自然将以最残酷的方式为我们控制人口增长，不管我们喜不喜欢。
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
在我们的社会里，勇气的对立面不是懦弱，而是从众。
We imagine that times have changed, because we have, and that we have changed, because times have.
我们想象时代变了，因为我们变了，我们也变了，因为时代变了。
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
学校的目的不是教化一个邪恶的世界，而是传授知识和发展智力，只有两个社会目标:做好准备，在世界的工作中承担自己的一份，或许还有，在完成学业后，帮助改善社会。