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时间限制了艺术家的骄傲和市侩的鄙俗。Time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity.

特别是他“玩儿”艺术，不求功名，不问市侩。Particularly he play with arts, and don't pursuit fame and secular.

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在这同时具有市侩气息和英雄气概的时期，各种思潮都有它的骑士。In that bourgeois and heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights.

不仅是市侩之流认为读诗的人有点古怪。It is not just the Babbitts who think there's something odd about people who read poetry.

戈培尔是个知识分子，看不起慕尼黑领导层不学无术的市侩庸人。As an intellectual Goebbels looked down on the crude philistines of the leading group in Munich.

也许你要闭上眼睛才能想象出一百年前周遭繁忙、市侩的景象吧。Perhaps, when you close your eyes, you can try to imagine what the busy area was like over one hundred years ago.

在这同时具有市侩气息和英雄气概的时期，各种思潮都有它的骑士，利润也有它的侠客。In that bourgeois and heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights, interests had their paladins.

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要在一个社会阶层中出人头地，就要有对细节的敏锐观察力，这可以解释为什么一些市侩小人常常能妙笔生花。To preside over a social hierarchy requires a sharp eye for detail, and this may explain why snobs often write vividly.

作为一个圈内人，她不宜再花过多时间评论同伴们的写作，鄙薄他们的市侩。As an insider, she couldn't spend so much time surveying the writing of her peers and caviling about their philistinism.

也许，孩童时期的灵魂是纯真的柔软的原始的，相比成长后市侩功利的人心，更接近生命永恒的本真。Perhaps, childhood 's soul is pure soft primitive, compared with growth outlook international utilitarian heart, closer to the essence of eternal life.

我在想那中间是否有着知识界的市侩隐藏在这种反消费主义之后。我便问他如果人们想要去麦当劳，为什么他们不该去呢？I wonder whether there isn't some intellectual snobbery hiding behind this anti- consumerism and put it to him that if people wished to use their freedom to go to McDonald's, why shouldn't they?

接触文学，接触世界文学，不啻是逃出民族虚荣心的监狱，市侩的监狱，强迫性的地方主义的监狱，愚蠢的学校教育的监狱，不完美的命运和坏运气的监狱。To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck.