Figures of speech修辞手法
Transferred epithet       移就
The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young…(para.1)
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   形容词nostalgic和curious使用方法属于移位修饰，真正修饰对象是the middle-age和the young。
Metaphor 暗喻
   此处利用了暗喻修辞，将狭隘道德规范比作人造围墙。所谓international stature意指美国在世界上主要地位。
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  …we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographi ...