A social system is a system of relations between persons and between groups.
社会系统是个人之间以及群体之间关系的系统。
竹简和丝帛文献的研究为了解中国古代文明打开了一扇新的窗口。
一个词的意义在于它在语言中的使用。
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
"The more you know, the less you understand."
That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.