民主经历了内战和发展着的庞大工业体系而幸存下来并挣扎进入20世纪。

Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

英国社会并没有经历大马士革式的转变，相反，它历经了极度混乱、争论、自我剖析和自我欺骗的时期而幸存下来。

English society did not undergo a Damascene conversion. Instead, it survived a period of intense confusion, debate, self-analysis and self-deception.

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