来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第1集 第1集》

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  and let their house go to ruin and become vagrants.
  任其房屋空弃而流浪街头
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  I see suicide. I see slavery.
  我看到自杀 我看到奴役
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  All these things you can read about in these novels,
  这些内容你们都可以在这些小说中找到
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  but reading these novels is not just about reading about those things.
  但阅读这些小说的目的不仅仅是阅读
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  It's also going to be the process of watching an artistic form
  其意义还在于目睹一种艺术形式
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  unfold over a very exciting period of time.
  在历史的激流中逐渐发展的过程
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  In the second half of the twentieth century
  在二十世纪下半叶
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  and up now into the twenty-first century,
  一直到现在的二十一世纪
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  writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the
  作家们专注于思考如何从艺术上
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  innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.
  重现现代主义浪潮中所涌现的新生事物
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  So one of the things we're going to think about together in the course
  所以我们在本课程中
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  is what happens to all those innovations.
  也会去体验这股浪潮中所发生的一切