我终于面对文学概念不是一个重要的改变，但作为一个潜在的仪器的停滞和社会停滞。

I was finally confronted with the notion of literature not as an agent of vital change, but as a potential instrument of stasis and social stagnancy.

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不安全的水和卫生条件不足，往往是失去了工作的一大原因，错过了上学的时候，在许多国家长期存在的经济和社会停滞周期。

Unsafe water and inadequate sanitation are often major causes of lost work and missed school days, perpetuating the cycle of economic and social stagnation in many countries.

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如果没有竞争，社会就会停滞不前，人民的生活水平就不会提高。

If there is no competition, the society will remain stagnant, the lives of the people level will not increase.

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Modernity is, in his work, a condition of social and psychological fragmentation which is both a private, personal dilemma and a public one, as he understands it.

在他的作品里，现代性，是一种社会和心理上的零散状态,就他而言，这既是个人的僵局，也是社会的停滞不前。

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