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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Mind you, he ascribes to authorial intention the most amazingly outrageous things that other critics threw up their hands in despair about, but nevertheless it is for him always still an appeal to authorial intention.

他认为写作意图,十分重要,但是被其他批评家忽视了，但是写作意图,十分吸引他。

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