A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
现代性
Modernity
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
现代性是一个定性的范畴，而不是一个时间的范畴。
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
现代社会已经用法律术语取代了道德规范，法律可以通过一个好的律师来驾驭。
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
现代性:我们创造了没有英雄主义的青春，没有智慧的老年，没有宏伟壮丽的人生。
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.
技术和奴隶制的区别在于，奴隶们完全意识到他们不是自由的。
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
现代性是短暂的，稍纵即逝的，偶然的;它是艺术的一半，另一半是永恒的、不可改变的。
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
当国家与现代化作斗争时，落后的人们往往对现代化的罪恶持有越来越坚定的看法。
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
现代性是短暂的、瞬息万变的、偶然的，构成了艺术的一半，而另一半则是永恒的、不可改变的。这一瞬息万变、瞬息万变的因素决不能轻视或忽视。