In Modernity and Ambivalence (1991) Bauman attempted to give an account of the different approaches modern society adopts toward the stranger.

在《现代性与矛盾性》(1991)一书中，鲍曼试图描述现代社会对“陌生人”采取的不同做法。

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In his book Modernity and Ambivalence (1991) Bauman began to theorize such indeterminate persons by introducing the allegorical figure of 'the stranger.

在《现代性与矛盾性》(1991)一书中，鲍曼开始论证这种不确定的人，他引入了“陌生人”这一隐喻概念。

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Many people feel some ambivalence towards television and its effect on our lives.

很多人以矛盾的态度对待电视及其对生活的影响。

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The metropolis, well, it's a place of ambivalence, a place of promise and of threat, of exultation and also of dread.

都市是一个自相矛盾的地方，既有希望，又有威胁，喜悦与恐惧相伴而存在。

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So as one reads the epic one senses this very deep ambivalence regarding the relative virtues and evils of civilized life and many of the features that make us human.

当人们读到这一段的时候，总是会对文明生活方式的利弊,产生一种很矛盾的感情,然而正是这些特性让人区别于动物。

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Peter the Great had an enormous ambivalence about his role and his image as a czar.

即彼得大帝的一言一行,很不符合沙皇的身份

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The days of ineptitude and ambivalence have been replaced with uncharacteristically lofty expectations.

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Of the 557 male and female students who responded to a question asking how they felt the morning after a hookup, 41% of those expressed sadness, regret and ambivalence.

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But just who did what in the Resistance has frequently been a source of heated debate in France where there's been much agonizing about collaboration with the Nazis and ambivalence about the Resistance.

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