在充满危机的社会中，在停滞不前的社会中—甚至在那些稳定的社会中—没有尝试的机会。

In societies that are in crisis and in societies which are stagnant — or even in those which are stable — there is no chance to try.

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对那个我在其间度过大半生的破坏性、停滞不前的社会来说，说实在话，存在着洛杉矶这样一种发展前景意义十分重大。

For the destructive, paralyzed world where I have spent most of my life, it is important, simply, that such a possibility as Los Angeles exists.

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在他的作品里，现代性，是一种社会和心理上的零散状态，就他而言，这既是个人的僵局，也是社会的停滞不前。

Modernity is, in his work, a condition of social and psychological fragmentation which is both a private, personal dilemma and a public one, as he understands it.

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Modernity is, in his work, a condition of social and psychological fragmentation which is both a private, personal dilemma and a public one, as he understands it.

在他的作品里，现代性，是一种社会和心理上的零散状态,就他而言，这既是个人的僵局，也是社会的停滞不前。

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