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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But if you go on a plane which is accelerating, you're no longer inertial.

但如果你上了一架加速飞行的飞机,你就不再处于惯性状态了

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