Most Western societies are liberal in outlook.

西方社会大多思想观念开放。

In many societies women are subordinate to men.

在许多社会中，妇女都从属于男人。

Success in many societies often goes unrewarded.

在许多社会，成功通常不能获得奖赏。

Most traditional societies have transition rites at puberty.

大多数传统社会在青春期举行过渡仪式。

In totalitarian societies, art exists for didactic purposes.

在极权社会中，艺术是为教诲目的存在的。

That is the fundamental difference between the two societies.

那是两个社会之间的根本差别。

In many non-Western societies, however, monogamy has never dominated.

然而，在很多非西方社会，一夫一妻制从未占主导地位。

Human societies have the power to solve the problems confronting them.

人类社会有能力解决他们面临的问题。

Societies need to develop highly adaptive behavioural rules for survival.

社会要生存需要建立有高度适应性的行为准则。

In many societies, young people are formally initiated into their adult roles.

在很多社会，年轻人要通过正式的仪式进入成年。

Young men compete with each other for membership in these societies and fraternities.

年轻人为获取这些社团和兄弟会的会员身份而相互争夺。

Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies.

现代社会的主要特征是消费而不是储蓄。

Patterns of public administration and government are superimposed on traditional societies.

公共行政与管治模式被生搬硬套于传统社会之上。

Which clubs and societies should you join?

你应该参加哪些俱乐部和社团？

In wealthy societies, the logic often reverses.

在富裕的社会里，这种逻辑往往是颠倒过来的。

Agricultural societies cannot exist without staple crops.

农业社会的存在离不开主粮作物。

Here more sedentary and more complex societies flourished.

在这里，更多的定居和更复杂的社会蓬勃发展。

This pattern is also widespread among Near Eastern societies.

这种模式在近东社会也很普遍。

They're more likely to occur in societies that frown on divorce.

这种关系更可能存在于反对离婚的社会中。

This view assumes that rich societies will invest in environmental care.

这一观点假设，富裕的社会将对环境保护进行投资。

When societies industrialized, knowledge of farming could be safe to forget.

当社会工业化的时候，关于农业的知识可以被遗忘。

Many people believe that plural marriages denote immorality of other societies.

许多人认为多妻制意味着其他社会的不道德。

Societies have always had their hierarchies, with some group perched at the top.

社会一直都有等级制度，有些群体居于顶端。

Perhaps this can partly explain the existence of left-handers in human societies.

也许这可以部分解释人类社会中左撇子的存在。

We all know that science plays an important role in the societies in which we live.

我们都知道科学在我们生活的社会中扮演着重要的角色。

In most tribal societies the only means to deal with an act of violence is revenge.

在大多数部落社会中，对付暴力行为的唯一手段是复仇。

It means that pastoralist societies occupy and can influence very large territories.

这意味着游牧社会所占据并能影响的领土面积非常大。

This conclusion is echoed by work with numeric children in industrialized societies.

工业化社会对大量儿童的研究响应了该结论。

In some New Guinea societies, the nuclear family is not the unit that eats together.

在新几内亚的一些社会中，核心家庭并不是一起吃饭的单位。

Societies that cannot replace their populations discourage investment and innovation.

无法更新迭代其人口的社会阻碍了投资和创新。