By doing this, they paved the way for social criticism in the city-state of Athens.

就这样，他们播下了雅典城邦内社会批评的种子。

Social criticism also was central to the writing of the newspaper writer H. L. Mencken, from the eastern city of Baltimore.

报纸作家H。 L。门肯来自东部城市巴尔的摩，社会批评也是他的作品里的主流。

In his solitary existence, he wrote his masterpiece Walden; a book that contains philosophical insights and social criticism that have remained topical to this day.

在他孤独的生活中，他写就了他的杰作《瓦尔登湖》；一本包含哲学见解和社会批评的书，直到今天仍然是热门话题。

His stories also express a lot of what we might call social criticism, where he's criticizing some the attitudes of American society at that time.

他的故事也表达了很多我们可以称之为社会批评的东西，他在批评当时美国社会的一些态度。