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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He's actually enacting, and he's enacting it rhetorically, the fragmentation of religious culture in seventeenth-century England.

他实际上在演绎，用他的修辞在演绎，17世纪英格兰破碎的宗教文化。

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Modernity is, in his work, a condition of social and psychological fragmentation which is both a private, personal dilemma and a public one, as he understands it.

在他的作品里，现代性，是一种社会和心理上的零散状态,就他而言，这既是个人的僵局，也是社会的停滞不前。

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One of the most intriguing aspects of this amazing passage is the fact that the fragmentation that Milton is describing, and on some level even enacting, is something that he seems to be celebrating here.

这令人惊奇的一段中最吸引人的地方就是,弥尔顿描述的或是在一定程度，上演绎的碎片，似乎是他在这里赞颂的部分。

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