Question

英文翻译，难度有点高，求高手解答！

This phenomenon presents a problem of explanation, not in terms of a general eroding of ideas by the slow emergence of unpleasant and unforeseen currents out of the main stream of the new industrial civilization, but of a swift and immediate and total smashing of a thought pattern, so that a group of men who before the first World War believed that they were in absolute control of the situation were reduced in six years to a frank bewilderment, to an inability to grasp the world around them
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Answer 1

这个现象得出一个问题的解释，不在于一个逐渐出现的，令人不快和不可预见的，来自主流的新的工业文明带来的大众的思想侵蚀方面，而是一个对思维模式迅速直接的突破，以至，第一次世界大战前，6年后，那些相信他们的处于绝对统治地位的人，缩减了他们对世界的困惑。

的确难翻，我觉得这段文字应该是有上下文的，如果有上下文可能比较容易理解些。

Answer 2

翻译神马啊？呵呵。

追问

网络有点糟，已经补充出来了