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文明
Civilization
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。
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。
A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
文明之间的对话可以看作是个人与世界之间的对话。
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
当代真正伟大的形式在于建立在工作精神基础上的文明。
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other man every right he claims for himself.
真正的文明是每个人都把他为自己要求的每一项权利给予他人。
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。
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
文明在多大程度上是建立在放弃本能的基础上的，这是不容忽视的。
A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace.
文明社会是一个展现真、美、冒险、艺术与和平五种品质的社会。
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
城市一直是文明的壁炉，那里的光和热辐射到黑暗中。
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
只有通过书籍，我们才能分享人类文明的伟大成果。
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
我们已经安排了一个文明，在这个文明中，最重要的元素都深深地依赖于科学和技术。
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
个人的自由不是文明的礼物。在任何文明出现之前，它是最伟大的。
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As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
只要艺术是文明的美容院，艺术和文明都不是安全的。
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。
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
我不相信文明会在一场有原子弹的战争中被消灭。也许地球上三分之二的人将被杀害。
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。
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
人类文明始于第一次一个愤怒的人用一个词来代替石头。
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。