来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第11集 第11集》

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  And there he criticized a lot of the work that was being done, and these
  在文中 他批判了很多作品
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  are the terms he uses.
  以下是他的表述
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  He said there were two kinds of artists:
  他说艺术家分为两种
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  ones who are "technically up to date," and ones that are not.
  一种是 "学术上领跑的" 一种不是
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  Those who are not write turn of the century-type novels,
  后一种人不创作时代小说
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  only in more or less mid twentieth-century language and about
  而是运用上世纪中叶左右的语言
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  contemporary people and topics.
  讲述着那个时代的人和话题
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  This makes them less interesting to me than excellent writers who are
  比起他们 我更喜欢那些既出色
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  also technically contemporary, Joyce and Kafka,
  又兼具时代性的作者 如同时代的乔伊斯
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  for instance, in their time, and in ours Samuel Beckett
  卡夫卡 以及现在的塞缪尔·贝克特
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  and Jorge Luis Borges.
  豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯
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  What exhausts language is the failure to keep technically up to
  致使文思枯竭的主要原因在于