开始，我并不知道那些家伙什么意思，但是没过多久我就知道它指什么了。

At first, I did not know what these guys meant. But it did not take long to figure it out.

youdao

我们每个人都想吃得更加健康合理，然而大部分人都不明白它到底是指什么，更不懂得该如何去做。 我们写这篇文章就是为了揭露其中的一些奥秘并且帮助你真正地了解它。

Everyone wants to eat healthier, however many of us barely understand what that means, let alone where to start.

youdao

史：阁下，“它可能会，也可能不会”你想表示什么意思，那个“它”指什么？

S: What do you mean, Lord, that it can go either way. What is “it”?

youdao

Unfortunately, we now have lived with it forever, so don't think of it as actually being anything dynamic particularly. It's just a name.

不幸的是，我们现在得一直沿用这个名字了,所以别认为它指的是什么动态的东西,这只是个名字。

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Now I want to really clarify for you what I mean by this term "modernism." It just means the art and literature of the early twentieth century, especially the "high art," although its roots are definitely in the nineteenth century, especially the French nineteenth century, fiction and poetry.

现在我特别想向大家解释清楚,“现代主义“到底是什么意思，它其实就是指,20世界早期的艺术和文学作品，特别是高雅艺术“,尽管它起源于19世纪，特别是19世纪法国的小说和诗歌。

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