And, as they did so, all the ugliness and violence of contemporary life would be washed away.

在此过程中 现代生活所有的丑恶暴力 都被冲刷得一干二净。

But we need models from contemporary life, we must educate ourselves and others to be men.

但我们需要当代生活的榜样， 我们必须教育自己和他人成为男人。

35. Futurism, an early twentieth-century movement in art, rejected all traditions and attempted to glorify contemporary life by emphasizing the machine and motion.

35。未来主义，二十世纪早期的一个艺术思潮。拒绝一切传统，试图通过强调机械和动态来美化生活。

The academic and author, professor Richard Hoggart, who did much to shape modern ideas about contemporary life and the power of media, has died at age of 95.

学者兼作家 Richard Hoggart 教授去世，享年 95 岁，他为塑造关于当代生活和媒体力量的现代观念做出了巨大贡献。

Yet it was this encounter with an individual caught between two worlds, and the promise he elicited from me, that fuelled my desire to spend the next decade writing about contemporary Arctic life.

然而，正是这次与一个夹在两个世界之间的人的相遇， 以及他从我那里得到的承诺， 激发了我的愿望在接下来的十年里写关于当代北极生活的文章。