Now, the products of that intellectual culture became the most sought-after commodity.

现在，那种知识文化的产物成了最抢手的商品。

This state of mind is rather difficult: it requires a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy.

这种心态是比较难的：需要有高度的智力修养， 没有情感的萎缩。

It has sometimes been suggested that our man of intellectual culture may be found like Nero fiddling with words while all the world about him is aflame.

有时有人认为， 我们的知识分子文化人可能会像尼禄一样在他周围的整个世界都在燃烧时摆弄文字。

It would have been kept in check, however, and even converted into an accomplishment, and one of the thousand modes of intellectual culture, had his more ethereal characteristics retained their vigor.

然而，如果他更空灵的特征保持活力， 它就会受到控制， 甚至转化为一种成就， 并且成为知识文化的数千种模式之一。