Some of this--we tend to think,as modern people, that a written text is actually the best thing.

我们现代人通常会认为，文字资料是最可靠的。

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And we're reminded of the etymological root of our modern English word career.

而后我们就会想起,现代英语文字语源学的根源。

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So, that is something these writers share with modernism, but there is one big difference and I want to exemplify that for you just by reading to you two parallel texts, one from the modernist canon and one from the Beat canon.

所以，这就是这些作者和现代主义的相似之处，但其中有个很大的区别，我想通过举例来说明,我给你们读两段类似的文字，分别是标准的现代主义风格和垮掉的一代的风格。

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