The English and their allies were steadily retreating all over the field.

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So the courses I took - -actually I took some English history obviously - I took no American history which would be the field I did in the PHD, but I took a lot of courses in philosophy, in literature.

所以我选了一些课程,当然我选修了英国历史-,但我没有学美国历史,因为那是我博士时的课程，但我选了很多哲学和文学方面的课程。

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At the same time, I do mean to give you some sense of the period in which they're writing, some sense of modernism as a field, as one of the richest fields in English language writing.

同时，我也会给你们提供一些背景知识,来了解作者创作的年代，以及现代主义的思想领域，就其作为英语文学创作最丰富的领域之一而言。

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