Scientists agree that musical instruments are a sign of fully modern behavior and a complex form of communication.

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These are not the only problems posed by the Western tradition in its modern form, which is what we live in.

这些问题不仅仅存在于,西方现代社会,也就是,我们现在生活的社会

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From the ensuing rebellion came limited constitutional representative government and ultimately our modern form of democracy.

从接踵而来的反抗运动到,受限制的代议制宪政政府,最终到我们现代的民主社会

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Eliot would go further and say that there is no common form of modern speech, and that's the problem.

艾略特涉及的更加深入,他认为谈话并没有什么通常的形式，而这就是问题所在。

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In these states, the modern world began to take form.

在这些国家中,现代世界的体制开始形成

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