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 country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.
一个把鲜花定价成奢侈品的国家还没有学会文明的首要原则。
Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization as we know it. We will find him, lock him up, and throw away the key. But give the man credit; for a week the truth was laid bare.
朱利安•阿桑奇当然不是英雄。维基解密背后的人发出了威胁，仿佛他是决心终结我们所知的文明的诺博士。我们会找到他，把他锁起来，然后扔掉钥匙。但要称赞那人。整整一个星期，真相大白于天下。
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
我所说的粗俗，是指文明的罪恶，它使人为自己和近亲感到羞耻，并假扮成另一个人。
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication -- particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
从我们有了交流的那一刻起，文明就开始发展了——尤其是海上的交流，使人们能够从彼此身上获得灵感和想法，并交换基本的原材料。
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
如果要对文明进行检验，没有人能像社会的那一半人的状况那样确定，而社会的那一半人又掌握着权力。
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
我们认为，文明是在生活的迫切需要的压力下，以满足本能为代价而创造的。