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Before long the movement had be-come officially recognized by the pulpit (which denounced it), by the movies and magazines (which made it attractively naughty while pretending to denounce it),
沒過多久，這場運動便得到了教會、電影雜志以及廣告商們的正式承認：教會方面是通過譴責的方式對它予以承認;電影雜志則是一方面假意對它進行譴責，一方面又將它描寫得放蕩胡鬧而又引人人勝;
and by advertising (which obliquely encouraged it by 'selling everything from cigarettes to automobiles with the implied promise that their owners would be rendered sexually irresistible).
廣告商們更是間接地對這場運動起了推波助瀾的作用，因為他們不論是推銷香煙還是推銷汽車一類的商品時都在暗示說，這種商品將使買主具有不可抗拒的性感。
Younger brothers and sisters of the war generation, who had been playing with marbles and dolls during the battles of Belleau Wood and Chateau-Thierry, and who had suffered no real disillusionment or sense of loss, now began to imitate the manners of their elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion.
在貝洛森林戰役和蒂耶里堡戰役正在進行之時，參戰青年的小弟弟小妹妹們還在家里玩著彈子游戲和洋娃娃，他們并沒有體驗到真正的幻想破滅或失落感，可現在競也學起兄長們的樣子，玩起群眾性的反傳統游戲來了。
Their parents were shocked, but before long they found themselves and their friends adopting the new gaiety. By the middle of the decade, the "wild party" had become as commonplace a factor in American life as the flapper, the Model T, or the Dutch Colonial home in Floral Heights.
他們的父母先是大吃一驚，繼而便發現自己以及自己的朋友們也都正在接受這種時興的快樂的生活方式了。及至二十年代中期，這種"放蕩的狂歡會"便像摩登少女、T型汽車或弗拉洛花園的荷蘭式房屋一樣，成為美國生活中司空見慣的事物了。
Meanwhile, the true intellectuals were far from flattered. What they had wanted was an America more sensitive to art and culture, less avid for material gain, and less susceptible to standardization.
其時，真正的知識分子對此現象遠遠談不上滿意。他們原本所希望的是使美國成為一個對藝術和文化更為敏感，對物質利益不那么貪求，對標準化觀念不那么輕易接受的國家。
Instead, their ideas had been generally, ignored, , while their behavior had contributed to that standardization by furnishing a pattern of Bohemianism that had become as conventionalized as a Rotary luncheon.
然而，他們的這種思想完全沒有受到人們注意，而他們的行為卻由于提供了一種已變得如同"扶輪國際午餐會"一樣常規化的"波希米亞式"的生活模式，反倒助長了這種標準化觀念。
As a result, their dissatisfaction with their native country, already acute upon their return from the war, now became even more intolerable.
結果，他們從戰場上歸來時本已十分強烈地對自己國家不滿的情緒，現在就變得更加忍無可忍了。
