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文明
Civilization
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.
在我们这个时代，主权国家已成为人类文明的致命危险，因为技术发展使它能够使用无数种和各种各样的破坏手段。
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
我希望在我们傲慢地把有明显缺陷的文明带到其他星球上之前，我们先把这个地方弄对，即使它们可能完全无人居住。
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
事实上，我们只能爱我们自己知道的。我们知道的不多。在公共事务中，在文明的重建中，需要一种不那么引人注目和情绪化的东西，即容忍。
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
文明对身体的要求是如此之高，以至于有些人把它称为一种疾病，尽管艺术能让弱小的身体活到更大的平均年龄，也能更好地保护我们免受传染病和细菌性疾病的侵害。
I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.
我要严肃地质疑，是否有人真的愚蠢到说出自己的意思。有时我认为，我们所知道的文明会崩溃，如果我们都是完全诚实的。
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
一个文明的国家可以没有敌人，一个人不能在地图上画一条线，这条线甚至在自然界中都不存在，说丑陋的敌人生活在一边，好朋友生活在另一边。
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。
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
因此，私刑法在遥远的西方占据主导地位，直到文明传播到各个地区，法律的有序进程取而代之。紧急情况不再存在，私刑逐渐从西方消失。
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
随着文明的出现，变化的速度从几十万年变成了几千年。随着科学作为了解宇宙的一种方式的出现，变化的速度转移到了几个世纪。
Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.
文明是一个过程，在这个过程中，一个人逐渐增加“我们”或“我们”这个词所包含的人数，同时减少那些被贴上“你”或“他们”标签的人，直到这个类别中没有剩下一个人。
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
最近，一些国家被迫借了数十亿美元用于战争;从来没有一个国家在很大程度上借钱用于教育……没有一个国家富裕到既能支付战争又能支付文明的费用。我们必须做出选择;我们不能两者兼得。
Only he whose special function is departure can depart from that civilization: a scientist is given license, a priest is given permission. But these are not given to a woman who does not even have the guarantee of a title.
只有他的特殊功能是离开才能离开那个文明:科学家得到许可，牧师得到许可。但这些都不是给一个连头衔都没有保证的女人的。
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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
自然是天赋的主人;天才是自然的主宰。
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。
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
在我们这样一个文明近现代的国家，几乎无穷无尽的物质财富财富带来了资本和劳动产业的风险，物质利益在某种程度上吸引了人们的注意力，这是很自然的，但在其他地方却不为人知。
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.
在文明生活中，一个人的幸福，甚至几乎是他的生存，在很大程度上取决于他的同胞的意见，他不断地扮演着一个研究的角色。
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
为我们的权利而进行的最后一场斗争，为我们的文明而进行的斗争，完全是我们自己的斗争。
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。