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文明
Civilization
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
它最看重的是所有事件和文明进步的总和，而文明进步也带来了个人;但是，对细节漠不关心，它更关心的是高尚，或者，更确切地说，宏大和完整，而不是真实的细节。
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
我们就像无知的牧羊人，生活在曾经繁荣过伟大文明的地方。牧羊人玩弄着浮出水面的碎片，对它们曾经是其中一部分的美丽结构一无所知。
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.
毫无疑问，西方文明在过去充满了战争和革命，而我们文化中的民族元素，即使被忽视，也总是提供了一种无意识的动力，激情和侵略性的自我主张。
A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
一个民族，只要它在过去和将来之间存在着一种真正的对比，只要它有勇气去冒险，超越过去的安全，它就能保持活力。没有冒险，文明就会完全衰落。
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.
要处理战争的真正原因，我们必须首先认识到一个众所周知的事实，即文明是对野蛮主义的片面、不完整和在很大程度上是表面的修改，这是与解决问题的首要关系。
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.
但是，只有通过细胞分裂的过程，才能使个体得到区别，使个体区别于母体，并独立于母体，从而获得文明的品质或文化。
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。
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
人们有时告诉我，比起文明，他们更喜欢野蛮。我怀疑他们是否进行了足够长的试验。就像亚历山大的人们一样，他们对文明感到厌倦;但所有的证据都表明，野蛮行为的无聊程度要大得多。
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。
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。
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
我们不能强迫他立即把文明以完整的形式呈现出来，但是根据公正的法律，保证印第安人享有平等的民事法律，印第安人的问题，这个使我们的国家蒙羞、使真正的爱国者蒙羞的问题，将很快成为历史。
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。
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Speech is civilization itself.
语言本身就是文明。
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。
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
文明对我来说有太多的规则，所以我尽我最大的努力重写它们。
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
在世界各地，我所写的野生动物都处于严重的危险之中。它正在被我们所谓的文明进步所消灭。