A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文明
Civilization
Speech is civilization itself.
语言本身就是文明。
I was determined to know beans.
我下定决心要了解豆类。
Civilization is what makes you sick.
文明让你生病。
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
文明和利益是相辅相成的。
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
幽默消失了，文明也就消失了。
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
家庭是文明的核心。
Education is the transmission of civilization.
教育是文明的传播。
The first sign of civilization is always trash.
文明的第一个标志总是垃圾。
Without adventure civilization is in full decay
没有冒险，文明就会完全衰败
A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
先驱者破坏事物并称之为文明。
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
对我来说，礼貌是文明的必要条件。
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
和平是文明的美德。战争是它的罪行。
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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
耶稣哭了。伏尔泰笑了。从那神圣的眼泪和人类的微笑中，产生了现代文明的优雅。
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
个人对集体努力的承诺——这就是团队工作、公司工作、社会工作、文明工作的原因。
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
对文明的控诉之一是，幸福和智慧很少能在同一个人身上找到。
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
我不相信文明会在一场有原子弹的战争中被消灭。也许地球上三分之二的人将被杀害。
There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.
世界上还没有文明的社会，只有正在走向文明的社会。世界上还没有文明的民族，只有正在走向文明的民族。从这一观点出发，我们现在可以谈谈人类的一项集体任务。人类的任务是建设真正的文明。