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当代
Contemporary
I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.
我读到的一切。我总是在忙着写一本书，对此我真的很书呆子气，我读完书之后就什么都不记得了。但我读过各种各样的书，从古典到现代。
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.
从完全“当下”的意义上讲，当代小说是不可能的，因为小说可能要花好几年的时间来写，所以小说开头的“现在”在写完的时候就已经不存在了。
The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.
在历史和当代社会结构中发现的社会形态的最早阶段是这样的:一个相对较小的圆圈与相邻的、陌生的或在某种程度上对立的圆圈紧紧地封闭在一起。
There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history.
有很多历史因素在我们今天所处的位置上发挥了作用，我认为，要想开始理解我们当代的问题和当代的问题，你必须对那段历史有一点了解。
There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in many discussions about 'the contemporary novel' where what that usually, unproblematically means is novels that have appeared recently or may appear soon.
当代小说是不存在的。在我显得完全反动之前，让我补充一句，我很高兴地参加了许多关于“当代小说”的讨论，在这些讨论中，通常毫无疑问的意思是最近或即将出版的小说。
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The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
当代艺术运动的某些趋势，但绝不是全部，似乎否定了这一理想，对我来说，似乎导致了一种纯粹装饰性的绘画观念。
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
毫无疑问，由于我所提到的文化在历史和地理上的扩展，我们当代的音乐世界在某种意义上要比早期时期丰富得多。
Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
即使是对我产生过重大影响的当代恐怖小说作家也是一群迥然不同的人。
Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.
显然，我既喜欢当代小说，也喜欢历史小说。当一个故事的线索抓住我时，我会试着跟着它走，看看它会把我带到什么地方。
I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.
我不担心这个时期是当代的还是三百年前的。人类都是一样的。