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文明
Civilization
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
没有文明，我们不会变成动物，而是蔬菜。
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
文明是秩序，自由是促进文化活动。
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
文明始于秩序，在自由中成长，在混乱中消亡。
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
我想上帝会来把文明拉到路边，让他们超速行驶。
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。
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
一个已经统治世界的文明不能说正在消亡。
Inter library loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.
馆际互借是世界的奇迹，是文明的荣耀。
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
文明的存在是经地质同意的，如有变更，恕不另行通知。
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
文明是人类把自己和排泄物之间的距离。
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
公正的求知欲是真正文明的生命力。
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
所有伟大的文明，在其早期阶段，都是以战争的胜利为基础的。
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
当然，一个文明的唯一坚实基础是健全的精神状态。
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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。
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。
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。
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
园艺是文明的和社会的，但它想要森林的活力和自由和不法之徒。
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
世界文明的命运取决于为全人类提供一种体面的生活水平。
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。