Eight features of literary modernism: An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy, the idea that art is its own law, that it responds to no other laws, that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.

第一，对艺术意志自由问题的困扰,对艺术是自身的法律，它不响应其他准则,它只有本身这唯一的目的，也就是说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If both religion and reason are removed, all that remains is will and power, where the only law is the law of tooth and claw.

如果宗教和理性都被世人所摒弃,那么世间就只剩下了权力和欲望,而这世间唯一准则就只剩下了弱肉强食

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Okay, common one, people see that now, well what that means is no longer is a three meal sufficient; there has to be a fourth.

这是人们常见到的一个广告,这意味着我们不再遵循每日三餐的准则,意味着我们必须吃第四餐

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That's certainly my trademark; that's how I do my research also.

这就是我的准则,也是我做研究的方法

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These constitute two irreconcilable alternatives, two different callings, so to speak, and any attempt, I think, to reconcile or to synthesize these two can only lead to a deep injustice to each.

这包含了两种无法调和的准则，两种不同的召唤，可以说任何想要，调和或综合两者的意图,仅会导致双方皆产生深度的不义。

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So, Humbert's lack of a moral vocabulary to understand what he's doing makes it seems like it's trivialized.

所以，Humbert缺乏对道德准则的理解,他所做的事情让这一切似乎被平凡化了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选