The city of Dessau, where the Bauhaus design school flourished(繁荣，兴旺) a century ago, catapulted(猛推，使突然进入) Germany into the modern era and revolutionised global design(彻底改变了全球设计).
德绍市，一个世纪前包豪斯设计学院在此蓬勃发展，将德国推入现代时代，并彻底改变了全球设计。
It is also where the Nazis drove the avant garde(先锋派，前卫的) movement out of town and attempted to crush its utopian(乌托邦的，空想的) principles. A hundred years later, another high-stakes(高风险的，赌注大的) culture war over its legacy is looming(逼近，隐约显现).
这里也是纳粹将先锋派运动逐出城镇并试图粉碎其乌托邦原则的地方。一百年后，另一场围绕其遗产的高风险文化战争正在逼近。
The EU’s biggest democracy will face one of the riskiest tests of the postwar period when Dessau’s home state of Saxony-Anhalt goes to the polls(进行投票，参加选举) on 6 September. In what would be a first since Adolf Hitler’s time, a far-right party could win an absolute majority(绝对多数) and take power in one of the 16 Länder(德国联邦州).
欧盟最大的民主国家将面临战后时期最危险的考验之一，德绍所在的萨克森-安哈尔特州将于9月6日举行投票。极右翼政党可能赢得绝对多数，并在16个联邦州之一掌权，这将是自阿道夫·希特勒时代以来的首次。