In modern industrial societies, we tend to limit our being to our body.

在现代工业社会中，我们倾向于将存在局限于我们的身体。

Just look, after all, at their rich, technical vocabularies, and the complex industrial societies that they serve.

毕竟，只要看看他们丰富的技术词汇，以及他们所服务的复杂工业社会就知道了。

That's similar to industrial societies, where artificial lights, TVs, smartphones and caffeine often get the blame for ruining our sleep.

这一数字与当今工业社会相近，电灯、电视、智能手机、咖啡因通常会让我们熬夜。

Industrial societies were the first to have universal public education, for instance.

例如，工业社会率先普及了公共教育。

By 1900, Britain was a mainly industrial society.

【industrial，industrially】到 1900 年英国总体上是工业社会。

Developed countries - refers to modern industrial societies that have to financially support retired people.

发达国家——指必须在经济上支持退休人员的现代工业社会。

In today's industrial society... is indispensable to life.

在今日工业社会中... 是生命不可或缺的。

The industrial societies of the world's developed countries are the most wasteful ever, their spoor turning up in every corner of the Earth.

因为处于工业社会的发达国家，他们制造了有史以来最多的垃圾，地球上的每个角落都有他们的足迹。

And now we finally start approaching present day America, with industrial societies.

现在我们终于开始接近现代美国，工业社会。

You can't have a postindustrial society without having industrial societies elsewhere to supply it with goods.

如果没有其他地方的工业社会为其提供商品，你就不可能拥有后工业社会。

While patrilineal traditions, like passing on the father’s last name to children, persist, most families in industrial societies trace descent through both men and women.

虽然父系传统（如将父亲的姓氏传给孩子）仍然存在，但工业社会中的大多数家庭都通过男性和女性来追溯血统。

Greater government intervention in people's lives and the creation of a broad systemic bureaucracy were needed to run a complex industrial society and these also forged national identity in its citizens.

要使一个复杂的工业社会运行，需要政府加大对人民生活的干预力度，并创建一个广泛的系统性官僚机构，而这些也在其公民中塑造了国家认同。

What's eating up our time? To begin with, Americans work longer hours and are rewarded with less vacation time than people in any other industrial society.

什么在浪费我们的时间？首先，美国人工作时间更长，得到的假期也比其他工业社会的人少。

However, these natural events happen over extensive geological timescales, whereas the rapid warming observed in recent decades aligns more closely with the rise of industrial human society.

然而，这些自然事件发生在广泛的地质时间尺度上，而近几十年来观察到的快速变暖与工业人类社会的崛起更为吻合。

But he argued that the transition from agrarian to industrial society, for instance, began with a shift in ideas – like new techniques in accounting and ways of approaching social organization.

但他认为，例如，从农业社会到工业社会的转变始于观念的转变——比如会计新技术和处理社会组织的方式。