1·With all that reflection and refraction, modernism creates the illusion that there is an illusion when in fact it is a straightforward statement of money and power.
通过反射和折射，现代主义创造了一个幻觉存在的假象，而实际上它是对金钱和权力不加掩饰的声明。
2·She was expressing in her own native phrases - assisted a little by her Sixth Standard training - feelings which might almost have been called those of the age - the ache of modernism.
她是用自己家乡的字眼儿表达的——再加上一点儿在标准的六年小学中学到的字眼——她表达的也许差不多是可以被称作我们时代的感情的那种感情，即现代主义的痛苦。
3·So, now, here's just a list for you: eight features of literary modernism that are all important to Nabokov.
现在我给大家一张列表，上面列举了八项对纳博科夫非常重要的文学现代主义的特征。
4·CX: My works do belong to modernism, but I was also influenced by earlier writers, such Cervantes's Don Quixote.
残雪：我的作品确实属于现代主义，但是我曾经被早期的作家影响过，例如塞万提斯的《唐吉可德》。
5·To be sure, modernism had its illustrious intellectual ancestry.
毫无疑问，现代主义有其声名显赫的的智慧祖先。