They are people that you--the community--trusts, that people are willing to let into their home and discuss things like death; that was an innovation that came in then.

他们在社区中享有威望,人们希望他们进入自己家中,并愿意与之讨论一些不快的话题,如死亡,这个创新从那以后就流行了起来

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In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。

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This is a new creation.

这个项目是一种创新。

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