Generally, Hemingway is regarded as a passive, pessimistic and decadent man; and his fiction is looked on as decadent literature.
长期以来，海明威一直被认为是一个颓废的、悲观厌世的作家。
In fact, he wants to counter the decadent morality and hypocrisy using his own aesthetic theory at the late Victorian time, to establish a new ethic full of vitality, freedom and personality, loftiness and beauty.
实际上,他想以自己的唯美主义理论来对抗当时维多利亚时代后期道德的腐朽和虚伪,建立一种生机勃勃的、自由而个性、崇高而符合人性的新道德。
At the narrative style,SuTong's novels represented dense decadent.
在叙事风格上,苏童小说表现出浓厚的颓唐风格。
参考来源 - “先锋”姿态中的“古典”守望ADJ（形容词） If you say that a person or society is decadent, you think that they have low moral standards and are interested mainly in pleasure. 堕落的[表不满]
...the excesses and stresses of their decadent rock 'n' roll lifestyles.
…他们颓废的摇滚生活方式中的种种无度与压力。
N-UNCOUNT（不可数名词） decadence 堕落
The empire had for years been falling into decadence.
这个帝国多年来已渐渐走向堕落。