This is the modern city, not as a scene of fragmentation or despair, but rather a place of ascent and aspiration.

这是一座现代化的城市，并不是破碎或绝望的场景，而是一座在上升的渴望之城。

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Behind this environment are the great social processes of migration and modernization that produced that new urban form, the metropolis.

在这种环境背后是移民和现代化的重大社会进程,所带来的新的城市形式，即大都市。

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I like it because it's a kind of image of the modern city that makes the modern city look like language, look like letters, look like a kind of scattered alphabet, a kind of babble.

我喜欢它是因为它呈现出了一幅现代城市的图画,使得城市看起来像语言一样，像字母一样，像打乱分散的字母表一样，像模糊不清的牙牙耳语。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选