social issue

基本解释

Food safety, a social issue, concerns everyone’s health and life.
食品安全，是一个社会问题，关系到每个人的健康和生命。
The women guarantee one another’s debts and meet every two weeks to make payments and discuss a social issue, like family planning or schooling for girls.
妇女为另一份贷款作担保，每两周见一次面偿还贷款并讨论社会问题，如家庭计划或女孩的教育问题。
Just a few years ago, the main social issue in India was farmer suicides because of low agricultural prices. Today, it is the lack of affordability of food for the poor.
就在几年前，印度的主要社会问题还是过低的农产品价格导致的农民自杀问题，到了今天就变成了贫困人口的吃饭问题。

"Land is a major social and political issue,very explosive and very much inclined to provoke a lot of conflict in different parts of the country.
The issue of connection has social factors and it's one answer that sociologists give for why it's good to go to Yale.
连接性这个问题是有社会因素的,社会学家给出过一个答案,为什么去耶鲁读大学是好事。
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Also, and more importantly, why is it hanging back on this as a social issue.
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This trust is there largely because Mr Bush has fought harder on the other big social issue, abortion.
ECONOMIST: George Bush and the social conservatives