According to Eliot, the modern world lacks a center, a kind of set of collective beliefs and commitments that would enable communication between us.

根据艾略特所说，现代世界缺少一个中心，缺少一套共有的信仰和承诺,来促成人与人之间的交流。

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In other words, all of them are modes of communication with which we function, the intelligibility of which allows us to negotiate the world around us.

也就是说，它们都是我们应用的交流模式，帮助我们理解周围的世界。

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