Freedom was a kind of an accident that came about because the usual ways of doing things were not possible.

自由的产生和发展是非常偶然的,因为照正常发展是不可能出现的

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There's an extraordinary sense of verbal chaos, a kind of word hoard that modern poetry and modernism -generally, a kind of linguistic environment of great complexity from which modern poetry and modernism emerge.

这里关于口头言论的混乱有一种独特的理解，关于现代诗歌和现代性的隐藏理解,总之，是一种关于语言环境的庞大复杂性的理解,现代诗歌和现代性即是由此产生发展。

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