All that is solid melts into air," Karl Marx said, evoking the accelerating transformation of modern economic and social life.

正如卡尔马克思所说，“一切坚不可摧的都烟消云散了“,唤起了现代经济和社会生活,产生变革的加速。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The metaphor suggests ecstasy, the exaltation of modern life, that aspiration imaged in Stieglitz too.

这个暗喻指的是心醉神迷，现代生活的狂喜，这种热切的渴望也反映在施蒂格利茨的照片中。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

These are not the only problems posed by the Western tradition in its modern form, which is what we live in.

这些问题不仅仅存在于,西方现代社会,也就是,我们现在生活的社会

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I'm thinking of the writing life one might have whenever we write a letter these days.

我所说的写作，也包括,现代生活中的写信。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But Hobbes lived at a time when the modern system of European states even as we understand them today, was just beginning to emerge.

霍布斯生活在一个时代,这个时代中，现代欧洲国家,就像我们今天理解的这样，已经快要出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Yeats's sense of modern history, of the crisis of his moment this is something we can describe and explore next time in "Easter 1916."

叶芝对现代历史，和他所生活时代的危机的感触,我们可从下节课要读的诗,1916年的复活节,还描述和探究“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Life in the modern metropolis was de-familiarizing.

现代都会的生活是令人陌生的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选