Well, in some sense this is exactly what modernity might be seen to be doing to traditional English culture.

某种程度上这正是现代性,被认为的对传统英国文化所产生的影响。

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I think it's possible to see that "they" as the sort of general forces of modernity, of everything at odds with the aristocratic culture Yeats and these women shared, inhabited.

我认为可以把它们看作“,某种现代性的力量，所有和贵族文化不一致的,叶芝和两个女人所共有的。

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Indeed, arguably a modern military power, at least in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century sense, and he injects European culture into Russia.

至少在十七世纪和十八世纪早期,它可以算是一个现代化的军事大国,同时 他将欧洲文化注入俄国

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