113. "It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves."

如果我们要定位自己最重要是要定位自己所处的社会团体。

I strongly agree that we define ourselves primarily through our identification with social groups, as the speaker asserts.

1. Any developmental psychologist would agree that socialization with other children plays a critical role in any child’s understanding and psychological development of self.

2. As children progress to the social world of the playground and other after-school venues, their earlier recognition that they relate more closely to some people than to others evolves into a desire to form well-defined social groups, and to set these groups apart from others.

3. However, as young adults take on the responsibilities of partnering, parenting, and working, they appear to define themselves less by their social affiliations and more by their marital status, parental status, and occupation.

120. "So much is new and complex today that looking back for an understanding of the past provides little guidance for living in the present."

现代社会是如此的崭新和复杂以至于回首了解过去对于当代生活已经没有太大帮助了。

Even though history offers few foolproof panaceas for living today, the author’s claim that today’s world is so unique that the past is irrelevant is too radical.

1. Admittedly, history has helped us learn the appropriateness of addressing certain social issues, particularly moral ones, on a societal level.

2. However, the only firm lesson from history about social ills is that they are here to stay.

现在和过去