第三次浪潮大约发生在一万或九千年前，见证了东北亚的祖先群体向现代爱斯基摩人和阿留申人的迁移。

The third wave, perhaps 10,000 or 9,000 years ago, saw the migration from North-east Asia of groups ancestral to the modern Eskimo and Aleut.

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虽然整整30天不能洗澡，但是传统正渐渐向现代观念屈服。

They're not supposed to bathe for 30 days following childbirth, but the strictures of traditional confinement are being bent to the needs of modern women.

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文艺复兴处于中世纪向现代的过渡时期。覆盖1350 - 1650年。

Renaissance was the transitional period between the Middle Ages and modern times, covering the years c1350-c1650.

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In Stevens, modernity shows us that the truth of religion was always a fiction, a fundamentally poetic construction.

在史蒂文斯的诗里，现代性向我们展示了,宗教的真理不过是虚构之言，是最基本的诗意创作。

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Now I want to really clarify for you what I mean by this term "modernism." It just means the art and literature of the early twentieth century, especially the "high art," although its roots are definitely in the nineteenth century, especially the French nineteenth century, fiction and poetry.

现在我特别想向大家解释清楚,“现代主义“到底是什么意思，它其实就是指,20世界早期的艺术和文学作品，特别是高雅艺术“,尽管它起源于19世纪，特别是19世纪法国的小说和诗歌。

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