We do not express these desires in real life because of the rules of polite society.

由于上流社会的规则，我们在现实生活中没有表达出这些欲望。

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He lives by a set of rules polite society doesn't understand, and therefore fears.

他为他的生存法则而活。这套法则，儒雅社会永远不会懂，由此众人害怕。

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The means by which sugar lumps arrived on tables in polite society were carefully hidden.

令糖块堂而皇之的登上为名社会的餐桌上的途径是经过精心隐藏的。

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The means by which sugar lumps arrived on tables in polite society were carefully hidden.

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But even when the east Europeans have departed, debating the merits of immigration will no longer be off-limits in polite society.

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Mr. Kirby says his upbringing as a white minority in his neighborhood left him "uncomfortable" in polite society and hostile to authority.

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