Others put it more bluntly: "an armed society is a polite society".

有人则更露骨“武装的社会就是文明的社会。”

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。

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。

He is a guy that lives by a different code than most polite society will ever understand or accept.

他们是这样一群人，他们用不同的生存代码编写自己的生命，而儒雅的社会却永远不理解，也不接受他们。

She became a rationalist herself, at a time when this considered by many in polite society to be blasphemy.

后来她也成了唯理论者，这被当时上流社会的许多人看做是对上帝的亵渎行为。