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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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
文明是一种信仰、习俗和知识的遗产，在几个世纪的过程中慢慢积累起来，这些元素有时很难用逻辑来证明，但当它们指向某个地方时，就会证明自己是正确的路径，因为它们为人类打开了内心的距离。
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
虽然文明一直在改善我们的住房，但它并没有同样改善住在其中的人。它创造了宫殿，但创造贵族和国王并不容易。
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。
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
文明是走向隐私社会的进步。野蛮人的整个存在是公开的，由他的部落的法律统治。文明是人类从人类中解放出来的过程。
Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
没有赢家，就不会有任何文明。