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Tashiro Posted 15 years ago
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Hi, please help me.

"What may seem setting your standards rather low in the Western mind is Chinese pragmatism at work, where the aim often is still marriage and not love."

I don't understand the meaning. Please translate it into simpler English.

"Urban Chinese society, it seems, is obsessed with the situation, so much so that art is now imitating, or at least reflecting, life."

Both "imitating" and "at least reflecting" modify "life"? And I have no idea about the meaing of the black-faced clause.

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Both "imitating" and "at least reflecting" modify "life"? -- No; 'life' is the object of the two verbs. 'Art reflects life' or 'Art imitates life' - this is a commonly-expressed opinion held by many artists and art critics of many periods.

— Mister Micawber

  • Both "imitating" and "at least reflecting" modify "life"?
  • -- No; 'life' is the object of the two verbs.
  • 'Art reflects life' or 'Art imitates life' - this is a commonly-expressed opinion held by many artists and art critics of many periods.
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Both "imitating" and "at least reflecting" modify "life"? -- No; 'life' is the object of the two verbs.

'Art reflects life' or 'Art imitates life' - this is a commonly-expressed opinion held by many artists and art critics of many periods.
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