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文明
Civilization
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
正是你们从现在开始所做的，要么推动我们的文明向前迈进一小步，要么……开始让我们稳步后退。
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
如果没有女人，我们还会蹲在洞穴里吃生肉，因为我们创造文明是为了给我们的女朋友留下深刻的印象。
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
我认为文明有不同的程度，也有许多不同的表达方式。但一个人是文明的还是不文明的。
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
少一点抱怨和牢骚，多一点坚韧不拔的工作和男子气概的奋斗，比一千项民权法案对我们更有好处。
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
一个人可以根据一组理论建立一所学校;但在一组价值观上，人们可以找到一种文化，一种文明，一种人类共同生活的新方式。
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。
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
再次代表欧洲文明传统统一的教皇制度，也表现出无法有效限制民族主义的推动。
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
如果人类要在目前的野蛮状态之外继续下去，就必须找到一条新的道路，一种以技术以外的其他方法为基础的新文明。
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
科技是上帝的礼物。在生命的恩赐之后，这也许是神最大的恩赐。它是文明、艺术和科学之母。
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.
我们必须种植海洋，并利用海洋作为农民而不是猎人来放牧动物。这就是文明的全部——农业取代狩猎。
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
然而，历史表明，如果物质力量能够击败某些意识形态，它就不能在不破坏整个地球稳定的情况下消灭一个文明。
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
文明从来没有达到如此轻视生命的程度;在此之前，从未有一代人沉浸在屈辱之中，对生活感到如此愤怒。
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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。
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。
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。
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
我们的文明仍处于中间阶段，几乎可以说是禽兽，因为它不再完全受本能的支配;几乎没有人性，因为它还没有完全被理性所引导。
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。
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
虽然文明一直在改善我们的住房，但它并没有同样改善住在其中的人。它创造了宫殿，但创造贵族和国王并不容易。