In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.

在当代西方世界，快速变换着的款式迎合了人们对新奇和独特性的追求。

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The western contemporary philosophers think that the life world only includes the daily life or the daily association of language.

现代西方哲学家们所理解的生活世界只是人的日常生活或日常的语言交往；

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William Faulkner is a modern classic in the western literary world. He has won a Nobel prize for his great and unparalleled contribution to contemporary American novels.

威廉·福克纳是西方文坛的“现代经典”，他因“对当代美国小说作出了强有力的和艺术上无与伦比的贡献”而获诺贝尔文学奖。

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This uneasy tension is exacerbated by the perceived intention of American liberals to reunite the Western world by making America more like contemporary Europe more top-down, more bureaucratic, more official, more collectivist, more rationalist.

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