The metaphor suggests ecstasy, the exaltation of modern life, that aspiration imaged in Stieglitz too.

这个暗喻指的是心醉神迷，现代生活的狂喜，这种热切的渴望也反映在施蒂格利茨的照片中。

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This is less of a problem in modern life then it used to be, but because things are supplemented and fortified-- overly so in some cases-- but still the deficiencies are less common then they used to be.

相比过去,这在现代社会中已不太多见,因为如今很多食物有人工添加的微量元素,有些甚至是过度添加了,但相比过去,缺乏微量元素已不那么常见了

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All that is solid melts into air," Karl Marx said, evoking the accelerating transformation of modern economic and social life.

正如卡尔马克思所说，“一切坚不可摧的都烟消云散了“,唤起了现代经济和社会生活,产生变革的加速。

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Life has only recently got better for hard of hearing patients with the development of modern hearing aids and cochlear implants.

直到近年来,随着现代助听以及耳蜗植入设备的开发,听力障碍病人的生活才有了改善,不过，有了新技术。

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And yet, in many ways, Socrates diagnoses very powerfully an important condition of modern democratic life with which we are all familiar.

但在很多方面，苏格拉底却也诊断了,非常有力且重要的,现在民主生活条件,那是我们都很熟悉的。

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Life in the modern metropolis was de-familiarizing.

现代都会的生活是令人陌生的。

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