《等待戈多》的形式是荒诞的，但其主题是以二战后西方世界复杂的社会背景和深重的精神危机为基础的。

The form of Waiting for Godot is grotesque, but the subject matter is based on the complex social background and deep belief crisis of the post-war Western world.

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与现在一样，当时的逻辑似乎无可反驳：尽管西方世界在股市崩盘后一蹶不振，但日本经济显然轻松地就返回了正轨。

Then, as now, the logic seemed unassailable. While the western world was stuck in the post-crash doldrums, the Japanese economy had got back on track with apparent ease.

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但在西方世界，我们未来的后工业时代的愿景已经分化为两种截然不同的景象：一种是由“复古主义者”描绘出的，而另一幅，则是由“技术狂人”描绘出的。

But in the western world, the vision of our postindustrial future has been polarized between two very different scenarios: that of the "Reversionaries" and that of the "Technophiles."

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