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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and then more contemporary looking, fancy front lobbies to the luxury buildings.

和看上去更现代化的、豪华的前厅。

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Behind this environment are the great social processes of migration and modernization that produced that new urban form, the metropolis.

在这种环境背后是移民和现代化的重大社会进程,所带来的新的城市形式，即大都市。

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Indeed, arguably a modern military power, at least in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century sense, and he injects European culture into Russia.

至少在十七世纪和十八世纪早期,它可以算是一个现代化的军事大国,同时 他将欧洲文化注入俄国

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What do you think of the modernisation that is going on in London?

你觉得伦敦的现代化进程如何？

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Which do you personally prefer, old London or modernised London?

你自己更喜欢哪个，古老的伦敦还是现代化的伦敦？

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What happened was, Salinas was a Harvard-educated economist; he came in to modernize Mexico and he wanted to privatize things, so he privatized a lot of the banks.

萨利纳斯是哈佛培养出来的经济学家,他支持墨西哥现代化进程,他主张私有化,所以他将一大批银行私有化

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In Yeats people are always particulars who are fitted to types which are new versions of old identities that travel across time.

在他的诗歌里人总是特定的,某些类型，是穿越时间的,古老人物的现代化身。

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He goes in a sense in an anti-modern direction, maybe even in some sense in a reactionary direction, at least in relation to other poets' ideas of progress and innovation.

他某种意义上走入了反现代化的方向，甚至某种意义上走入了反动的方向，但至少和其他诗人关于,进步和创新的想法有关系。

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But it's inevitable and the reason why it's great,

但这是一个必然的过程，现代化之所以很好，

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