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Thus in a changing world youth was faced with the challenge of bringing our mores up to date.
這樣一來，在一個千變萬化的世界中，青年一代便面臨著使我們的道德習慣與時代合拍這一挑戰。
But at the same time it was tempted, in America at least, to escape its responsibilities and retreat behind an air of naughty alcoholic sophistication and a pose of Bohemian immorality.
而與此同時，青年人。至少美國的青年人-又表現出這樣一種傾向：他們試圖逃避自己的責任。沉溺于一種老于世故、以酒自娛的生活作風之中，裝出一副波希米亞式的放蕩不羈的樣子。
The faddishness , the wild spending of money on transitory pleasures and momentary novelties,the hectic air of gaiety, the experimentation in sensation-sex, drugs, alcohol, perversions-were all part of the pattern of escape, an escape made possible by a general prosperity and a post-war fatigue with politics, economic restrictions, and international responsibilities.
追求時尚，為了短暫的快樂和一時的新奇而大肆揮霍，縱情地狂歡，尋求各種各樣的感官刺激--性行為，吸毒，酗酒以及各種各樣的墮落行為--這些都是他們逃避責任的表現形式，是一種由社會的普遍繁榮及戰后人們對于政治、經濟限制和國際義務所產生的厭煩情緒所造成的逃避方式。
Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit,and the much-publicized orgies and defiant manifestoes of the intellectuals crowding into Greenwich Village gave them a pattern and a philosophic defense for their escapism.
禁酒法令使青年人有了更多的機會尋求違禁取樂的刺激。文人墨客紛紛涌人格林威治村，他們那些被大肆渲染的放縱行為和挑戰性言論也為青年人的逃避主義提供了一種表現形式和一套哲學辯護辭。
And like most escapist sprees, this one lasted until the money ran out, until the crash of the world economic structure at the end of the decade called the party to a halt and forced the revelers to sober up and face the problems of the new age.
這種逃避主義者的縱情狂歡，像大多數逃避主義者的縱情狂歡一樣，一直要持續到狂歡者囊空如洗為止。到二十年代末世界經濟結構總崩潰之時，這種狂歡宴會便告停歇，那些尋歡作樂者也只得從酣醉中清醒過來，去面對新時代的各種難題了。
