The magazine, in many ways, announced and facilitated Eliot's rise to a kind of cultural authority as a taste maker, and with it certain ideas of modernism.

在很多方面，这本杂志宣告并且促进了艾略特的崭露头角,把他上升为一个测定文化品位的权威人士，同时也预示了杂志本身关于现代主义的一些思想。

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This ambivalence that I'm describing is at the center of modern literature generally.

我所叙述的这种矛盾,是始终存在于现代文学的中心思想中的。

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Well, that's not the way it is with the modern world and that's not the way it comes out of the enlightenment, the individual is the ultimate.

这和现代世界的观点不同,和启蒙时期的思想成就不同,他们认为个人利益至上

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Foucault couldn't possibly allow for that because plainly the whole texture of their discourse would be undermined by introducing the notion that it's okay to be a master, and yet Ricoeur feels that these figures dominate modern thought as masters.

福柯不会认同因为,这样的话他们话语的整个结构就会被破坏,如果引入可以作为大师的观点的话，同时,里克尔感觉这些人支配着现代大师的思想。

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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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I think the sort of skepticism I mean arises from what one might call and what often is called modernity not to be confused with Modernism, an early twentieth-century phenomenon, but the history of modern thought as it usually derives from the generation of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes.

我所说的怀疑主义,产生于我们通常说的现代性,不要与20世纪早期的，现代主义搞混了，现代性是现代思想的历史,始于笛卡尔，莎士比亚和塞万提斯一代。

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Non-Western peoples who wish to share in the things that characterize modernity will need to study the ideas and history of Western civilization to achieve what they want, and westerners, I would argue, who wish to preserve these things must do the same.

希望分享西方现代特点的,非西方人士需要学习,西方文明的思想和历史,以实现自己的理想,而对西方,而我要说,那些希望,保留自身文明的西方人,也必须做相同的事

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