In one, a cloud-wrapped mountain rises dramatically from a broad stretch of river - but modernity is never far away.

其中有一张，烟雾缭绕的高山耸立在绵延的河流中——不过，在不远处便就现代的东西了。

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Shahabpur, a village on the Gangetic plain, is caste-addled and somehow cohesive. But modernity, fast encroaching, is changing its ancient ways.

沙哈普尔，恒河平原上的一个村子，种姓错综复杂又有某种关联。但是现代性的东西正以快速蚕食的方式改变着其古老格局。

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But they like competence, effectiveness and modernity, too.

不过，他们也亲睐能力、效率与现代性。

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But others praised the work for its political message and modernity.

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In Crane, the emphasis is not on what is lost in modernity but what is found or what might be.

在克莱恩看来，重点不是现代性丧失了什么,而在于新的发现或可能性。

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I think the sort of skepticism I mean arises from what one might call and what often is called modernity not to be confused with Modernism, an early twentieth-century phenomenon, but the history of modern thought as it usually derives from the generation of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes.

我所说的怀疑主义,产生于我们通常说的现代性,不要与20世纪早期的，现代主义搞混了，现代性是现代思想的历史,始于笛卡尔，莎士比亚和塞万提斯一代。

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But modernity has its limits.

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But the infrastructure of modernity, according to the new view in vogue among Japanese intellectuals, was already there.

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Mr. Kiarostami neither sentimentalizes tradition nor glorifies modernity, but by the conclusion, when a bone floats down a river while goats graze amid flowers, wisdom accompanies the shock of poetry.

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