His book "Delirious Manhattan" is recognized as an important study of modern architecture and society.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

He seems to have known something about the modern economic theory of society long before modern economics was even developed.

而且是公开的驳斥,他似乎已知现代社会的经济原理,且是在现代经济学开始发展之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The modern state, as we have come to understand it, is based upon the separation of civil society from governing authority.

我们所了解的现代国家，是根据,区隔公民社会与统治当局的角度来看。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And they thought Tennessee's law againt teaching evolution was foolish in a modern,scientific society.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

It was a society that eventually developed a disdain for what they perceived as the corruptions of modern commercialism.

南方社会,对他们认为的腐败的现代重商主义,持有一种相当鄙夷的态度

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

In her debut novel,"Try to Remember," poet Iris Gomez explores the challenges young Latinas struggle with to stay loyal to their families, while becoming independent women in modern American society.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22