In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

在上流社会，人们对所有的笑话都会发笑，包括以前听过的笑话。

In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.

最终，我们的社会将不仅由我们创造的东西来定义，而且由我们拒绝破坏的东西来定义。

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

在这些时候，你必须是一个乐观的人，当你早上醒来的时候睁开你的眼睛。

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

在这个以我为中心的社会里，我的工作就是让人们买比自己更大的东西。

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

在当今社会，我们有时会忘记平衡我们的心和我们的头;这就是我们停止大笑的原因。

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

个人权利是使社会服从道德法律的手段。

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

知识产权是一个重要的法律和文化问题。社会作为一个整体面临着复杂的问题:私有与开源，等等。

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

国际主义是一种社会和政治理论，是关于人类社会应该如何组织的特定概念，特别是关于各国应该如何组织相互关系的概念。

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

看来，我们头脑中携带的媒体过滤器就像电脑一样:为了跟上高速社会对它们的要求，它们被迫加快速度。

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

与生活在丛林沙漠中的人们相比，在一个被科技奇迹环绕的人身上找到幸福的机会更少，而按照我们社会所设定的标准，这些人会被认为是贫困和与世隔绝的。

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

在这个社会中很难接受死亡，因为它是陌生的。尽管它经常发生，但我们从未见过它。

It is good for society to have this introspection.

这种反省对社会是有好处的。

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

黑人犯罪是无可争辩和可悲的;但它们是衍生性犯罪。他们是白人社会更大罪行的产物。

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

我们每个人都有责任改进支出和储蓄做法，以确保我们个人的财政安全，维护我们伟大社会的集体经济福祉。

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

我相信，这是任何社会产生的最伟大的一代。