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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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

这篇论文不仅试图分析现代西方家庭,也试图分析其他文化中的家庭和过去几个世纪家庭结构的变化。

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。

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

我不担心这个时期是当代的还是三百年前的。人类都是一样的。

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

没有哪个博物学家比达尔文先生对藤壶的结构倾注了更多的心血。

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

我从来没有注意过什么是当代的,什么是商业的,这对我来说没有任何意义。

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

在一个什么都不知道的领域,医学不得不借鉴社会知识。