奥尼尔并不是直接接受的德国的表现主义理论，他戏剧中的表现主义风格的形成是多种因素影响的结果。

Not having been accessible to expressionism in Germany, o 'neill, influenced by various factors, formed his style in his drama creation.

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It's a late Victorian image of an archaic singer rendered in the melodramatic manner of Pre-Raphaelite art and thoroughly removed from the aesthetic values of modernism, such as naturalism, formal clarity, emotional restraint and so on.

这是维多利亚时代晚期古代吟唱诗人的肖像,用戏剧化的前拉斐尔派,风格表现，完全摒弃了,现代主义的审美观，比如自然主义，形式明确，感情自制等等。

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