The language is perpetually in flux: it is a living stream, shifting, changing, receiving new strength from a thousand tributaries, losing old forms in the backwaters of time.

语言一直都在变化：那是条流动的溪水，不停地在转换、变换，接受千条支流的新生力量，丢弃旧形式。

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I was encouraged to break away from old forms and rules.

大家鼓励我破除旧形式和旧框框。

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It is also necessary to put new content into old forms, because the old forms are deep-rooted and loved by the masses and are, therefore, worth adopting.

采用旧形式反映新内容的方法也是必要的，因旧形式在民间具有根深蒂固的潜势力， 深为群众所喜爱，且其本身亦有可利用的价值。

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I'm not sure whether we'll use the Classes server to have you sign up for discussion sections online, or whether we will do it the old-fashioned way and have you sign up on forms that we'll give you here in class.

我还没想要是用校网站,让大家在线讨论，还是用传统的,课堂讨论。

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He could not rest with the new forms of war and old forms of poverty.

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Before his death in 1991, Valokay had become Turkey's most admired mosque-maker, and his challenging reinterpretation of old forms were known in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.

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Oddly, it was not a Breton but a Spaniard, Carlos Nunez, from the north-western region of Galicia, who best showed old artistry in new forms.

ECONOMIST: Celtic music