This is not 'optimism' in the modern sense of looking on the bright side.

这不是现代意义上的乐观主义。

Part of the problem is we have a very modern sense of freedom.

问题可能在于，我们对自由有一种非常当代的理解。

The judgments made about poetry are not, then, " aesthetic" in our modern sense, but political.

因此，对诗歌的判断不是我们现代意义上的“审美” ，而是政治。

Indeed the Civil War period developed only one corporation that could be described as a " trust" in the modern sense.

事实上，南北战争时期只发展了一家可以被描述为现代意义上的“托拉斯” 的公司。

I'm very attached to all that kind of thing that may not all be very entertaining in the modern sense of the world.

我非常喜欢那些在现代意义上可能不太有趣的东西。

By the time Peggy develops a modern sense of style, we see her sporting the fashionable A-line silhouette in either drop-waist or trapeze styles.

- 当 Peggy 发展出现代风格时，我们看到她穿着时尚的 A 字型廓形，采用低腰或空中飞人款式。

The printing, the books, I’m very attached to all that kind of thing that may not all be very entertaining in the modern sense of the world.

各类印刷品和书籍，我都非常喜欢，虽然这些在现代人眼里，并不是那么有趣。

It is not a question of " aesthetics" in the modern sense as the experience of a work of art or our judgment upon it, as much as it is a question of the aesthetic regime of the political.

这不是现代意义上的“美学” 问题，即对艺术作品的体验或我们对它的判断，而是政治审美制度的问题。