So, now, here's just a list for you: eight features of literary modernism that are all important to Nabokov.

现在我给大家一张列表,上面列举了八项对纳博科夫非常重要的文学现代主义的特征。

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But many, particularly two-- bureaucracies and powerful standing military forces-- are characteristics of modern states.

这些变革,尤其是官僚机构和强大的军队,这两方面是现代国家的特征

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So anti-modernism and honor are two hooks you can hang your hats on.

反现代,要面子,是南方人两大特征

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