經历过了下列各个年代的英国文化史:輕松愉快的二十年代,社会意识的三十年代,世界大战后的福利国家的四十年代和緩和而重整的(如果这不是一种过早的征候的話)五十年代,要籠統地叙述它的各个时期不是一件容易的事。回想起來,第二次世界大战,在某些方面并不象第一次世界大战那样,有文化的分界綫。二十年代反維多利亚主义(或者是那一代人所认为的維多利亚主义)的日見增长的速度并沒有促进当时一度預計的价值革命,而作为不景气的产物,在以后十年間出現的左翼思想型式,对于第 Having lived through the history of British culture in each of the following decades: the relaxed twenties, the thirties of social consciousness, the forties of the welfare state after World War, and the emancipation and reorganization (if not premature In the 1950s, it was not easy to recount its various periods in general terms. In retrospect, the Second World War did not in some ways have the same cultural dividing line as the First World War. The increasing rate of anti-Victorianism (or that of Victorianism of that generation) in the 1920s did not foster the once-expected value revolution, but as a result of the recession in the next decade Left-wing ideology, for the first