A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文明
Civilized
Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.
酒从一开始就与文明人同在。
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
我希望那个女人不会被男人开化。
Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
自由文明的社会不会孤立地关押囚犯。
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
说服战胜武力是文明社会的标志。
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
她仍然不如男人文明,主要是因为她没有受过教育。
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
除非我们买书的钱比买口香糖的钱还多,否则我们永远不会成为一个文明的国家。
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
真正的文明人的标志是对求知欲所产生的力量和安全的信心。
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
一个文明社会至少应该为那些努力工作、毕生储蓄的人提供慷慨的基本国家养老金。
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
有一项要求是确保撤离以文明的方式进行。我们将能够向世界表明,我们值得独立和自由。
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
在一个文明的社会里,所有的犯罪都有可能是罪,但是大多数的罪不是也不应该被当作罪来对待。人的最终责任是只对上帝负责。
Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.
电视并不因为人们粗俗而粗俗;这是粗俗的,因为人们在他们的好色的利益上是相似的,在他们的文明的关注上是截然不同的。
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
我们的指导原则是,设计既不是智力问题,也不是物质问题,它只是生活中不可或缺的一部分,是文明社会中每个人都必须具备的。
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The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.
阅读有关同一事件的新闻报道在全世界引起的同时的反应,可以说,为整个文明人类创造了共同的精神脉搏。
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
历史的概念本身就意味着学者和读者。如果没有一代文明人来研究历史,保存历史记录,吸取历史教训,并把它们与自身的问题联系起来,历史也将失去其意义。
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
在第二次世界大战及其所伴随的情况给世界带来的不祥阴影下,和平已成为文明生存的必要条件,正如我们呼吸的空气对生命本身一样。
Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.
然而,总的来说,我所走过的这片土地不太可能成为文明人常去的地方,或者只会成为一个孤立的地方,作为与一个更富饶的国家连接的纽带;如果这样一个国家存在于西部。