乌尔里希·贝克是一位著名的德国社会学家，也是他一生中被引用最多的社会科学家之一。他的作品集中于现代社会的不可控、无知和不确定性问题，并创造了“风险社会”和“第二现代性”或“反思性现代化”等术语。
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
因此，全球化不仅是我们今后关切和威胁的问题，而且是目前正在发生的问题，我们必须首先对之睁大眼睛。
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
世俗社会的基本假设是现代性战胜宗教。
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
社会学中所有的现代性理论都认为，现代性越多，宗教就越少。在我的理论中，我们可以认识到这是错误的：无神论只是众多信仰体系中的一个。
In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
归根结底，恐怖也是超级大国并非真正超级大国的另一个证明。它很脆弱。
We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
我们生活在一个无法控制的世界里。
The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
世界已经变得如此复杂，以至于现在认为一个所有事物都聚集在一起并可以集中控制的力量是错误的。
You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
你可以说，我们生活在一个内部全球化的国家。
Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
欧洲本身就是这种多样性的体现。