All of this is Darwinian thinking and, I think, increasingly will be central in importance in the twenty-first century.

这就是达尔文所思考的，我认为，这在二十一世纪会越来越重要。

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In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。

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