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英译汉竞赛原文： The Posteverything Generation I never expected to gain any new insight into the nature 我从未想过要对我们这一代人的本质， of my generation, or the changing landscape of American 或者说在美国大学变化中的风景， colleges, in Lit Theory. Lit Theory is supposed to be the class 在理论上获得任何新的见解。文学理论应该是 where you sit at the back of the room with every other jaded 你和其他穿着 sophomore wearing skinny jeans, thick-framed glasses, an 紧身牛仔裤和一件夸张的T恤，带着厚框眼镜和 ironic tee-shirt and over-sized retro headphones, just waiting 超大号的复古耳机的疲惫不堪的学生们坐在教室的后排，等待 for lecture to be over so you can light up a Turkish Gold and 着讲座结束，然后你可以点亮一根土耳其黄金， walk to lunch while listening to Wilco. That’s pretty much 听着Wilco去吃中饭。这也是 the way I spent the course, too: through structuralism, 我度过课程最好的方式：通过结构主义， formalism, gender theory, and post-colonialism, I was far too 形式主义，性别理论，后殖民主义，我相当 busy shuffling through my Ipod to see what the patriarchal world 忙碌的通过我的iPod看资本主义 order of capitalist oppression had to do with Ethan Frome. But 压迫的男权世界秩序跟伊坦。但是 when we began to study postmodernism, something struck a chord 当我们开始学习后现代主义的时候，我与某些东西发生了共鸣， with me and made me sit up and look anew at the seemingly blasé 它让我深思，重新审视那些看似无所谓的 college-aged literati of which I was so self-consciously one. 大学文人，而我是其中很自觉的人。 According to my textbook, the problem with defining 根据我的教科书，定义 postmodernism is that it’s impossible. The difficulty is that 后现代主义的问题是不可能的。困难在于它是 it is so...post. It defines itself so negatively against what 如此的……后。它自己定义的是如此消极， came before it – naturalism, romanticism and the wild 与它之前的相悖：自然主义，浪漫主义和 revolution of modernism – that it’s sometimes hard to see what 现代主义的疯狂革命，有时很难看出 it actually is. It denies that anything can be explained neatly 它究竟是什么。它否认了任何甚至所有可以被清楚解释的定义。 or even at all. It is parodic, detached, strange, and sometimes 这是诙谐的、超然的、奇怪的，有时 menacing to traditionalists who do not understand it. Although 甚至会威胁到谁不明白的传统。虽然 it arose in the post-war west (the term was coined in 1949), 它出现在战后的西方（这个词是在1949出现）， t