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As Jacques points out, China "may seem like a nation state, but its geological formation is that of a civilisation state" .
正如雅克所指出的，中国“看起来像是个民族国家，但其地理组成是个文明国家。”
Those changes are frequently enough - though they may have been gradual - to say that there is now a different civilisation.
那些改变往往已足够。尽管那些改变是渐进的。现在可以说有了个不同的文明。
Express that in terms of your whole civilisation, and if you so desired you could bring peace and prosperity back to Earth very quickly.
扩展这些横跨你们整个文明，如果你这样“意愿”，你们将能够给地球很快的带来“和平”与“繁荣”。
Maybe that's one of the secrets of Chinese civilisation and why it has lasted so long: that balance of the two sides.
或许这正是中国文明以及它为什么如此渊源流长的秘密之一：儒与道的平衡。
But that does not mean we, as anthropologists, should not use this word 'civilisation' and develop a concept of its usage.
但是这并不意味着我们作为人类学家不能用‘文明’这个词并且将它的惯用法发展成一个概念。
It is only then that cosmic character will be brought into your civilisation and a state of balance reinstated.
唯有那时，宇宙特性将被带进你们的文明，复原一种平衡的状态。
He thought that civilisation fills "man" with unnatural wants and seduces him away from his true nature and original freedom.
他认为文明用各种非自然的欲望充斥“人”，并诱使他偏离自己的真实本性和原初自由。
The human race is in a twilight zone between a dying civilisation on life support and an emerging one trying to find its legs.
人类正处在两种文明的交替处，一面是进入暮年、苟延残喘的文明，一面是逐渐兴起、尚未立足的文明。
And the country should not be allowed to get away with them by citing sovereignty and the length of its civilisation.
这个国家不应以主权和漫长的文明史为自己开脱。
The belief used to be that there was only one source of Chinese culture, and that the Yellow River was the only cradle of her civilisation.
此前的观念是，中国文化只有一个源头，黄河是中国文明的唯一摇监。
Indeed it is possible to apply to all societies the word 'civilisation'. I hope to make this clear later.
的确，“文明”，这个词汇也可能适用于所有的社会，我希望能将此表达清楚。
And when the children behave in their averagely foul, unruly ways, the peace and civilisation of the office offers the most blissful refuge.
当孩子举止讨厌，不受管束（他们常常如此）时，安宁、文明的办公室就是安乐窝。
The gaunt and grave civilisation of the thirteenth century was presented with that of the nineteenth, grinning, prosperous, and well armed.
十三世纪的贫乏而朴素的文化就和那微笑的，昌盛的而又武装得很好的十九世纪的文明呈现在一起了。
They also contribute to the level of civilisation that makes this country such an attractive place in which to live and work.
它们还提升了文明的层次，使这个国家充满魅力，成为工作和生活的好地方。
they might be the last frontier of civilisation when the Western Liberals have sold us all out to the Caliphate.
他们可能是代表人类文明最后的阵地，当西方这些自由主义者把我们（的国家）都卖给了阿拉伯人。
It must also be broad enough to include the fact that any one civilisation can be a disputed civilisation with many centres.
同样，文明概念，也应该有足够广泛的内涵，来囊括这样一个事实：既任何一种文明都可能是多中心的，富有争议性的文明。
To his surprise he found a direct correlation between the age of the civilisation and the number of phonemes in its language.
他惊奇的发现，一个文明它历史的悠久度以及其语言中所包含的音素数量之间有着一个直接的联系。
DEPENDING on your viewpoint, tax may be the price of civilisation or it may be a form of legalised theft.
从您的视角看，税收或许是文明的代价，亦或许是一种合法偷窃的形式。
Indeed, its role in the history of civilisation has "far surpassed [that of] any other expanse of sea" .
确实，在世界文明史上，地中海的影响力大大超出了其他任何海域。
Since the end of the last ice age, we humans have spent 400 generations taking advantage of this stability to build our civilisation.
自从上次冰河时代末期以来，我们人类已有四百代人利用这种稳定性的优势建设我们的文明。
The decipherment of the Mayan glyphs revealed that the New World had a sophisticated, literate civilisation at the time of the Roman empire.
玛雅文字的破译向我们展示了一个与罗马帝国同时代的错综复杂的新大陆——一个同样有着高度文明的国度。
To pay for sex is to strip away the veneer of artifice and civilisation and connect with the true animal nature of man.
为性付费，这样才能去除阴谋和文明的虚饰，使我们恢复真正的动物本性。
The Mayan civilisation was one of the most spectacular in pre-Columbian history.
玛雅文明是哥伦布之前历史上最令人叹为观止的文明之一。
Perhaps we now have an explanation of its origin - a folk memory of a real ancient civilisation swallowed by the sea.
一段民间记忆记载了一个真实存在但最后却被大海吞没的古老文明–也许我们现在可以解释它的由来了。
They Began to see its weaknesses and the less edifying aspects of its civilisation .
他们开始看到中国的弱点，以及中国文明的其他较缺少启发性的一面。
Retirement at 60 in an ageing society is not a sign of civilisation, but a cruel joke played on the next generation.
老龄化社会60岁的退休年龄绝不是文明的象征，而是对下一代开了一个残酷的玩笑。
At a time of crisis for free-market liberalism everywhere, it must rank as a central goal of Western civilisation.
在自由市场自由主义的危机时刻，这必须是西方文明的核心目标。
Electronic book technology is a revolutionary breakthrough in modern civilisation, making is possible to shake off thick and heavy books.
电子书籍技术是现代文明中的革命性突破，使人们得以摆脱厚重的书本。
Barbarism had not been able entirely to eradicate the culture and civilisation of ancient Rome.
愚昧落后并不能完全归咎于古罗马文化和文明的灭绝；
The civilisation in Central America today is not at all like the civilisation there a thousand years ago.
现今的中美洲文明与一千年前的文明是不完全相同的。
Today's 'civilisation-state' has been approached in something of the same spirit.
今天的“文明国家”或许是用同样的精神来讨论的吧。
Our civilisation will not survive in anything like its present form, but we can at least aim for a managed retreat to a saner world.
我们的文明将无法以任何一种目前的形式维系，不过我们至少能有目标地稳步后撤，回到一个更理智的世界。
They certainly had a long run, but I'd have thought the ancient Egyptian civilisation has any of the Mesopotamian ones beat.
他们确实有一段很长的历史，但我认为古埃及文明各个方面都完胜两河文明。
Occupy Wall Street is an experiment in living differently on the margins of this civilisation, not a blueprint for a new one.
占领华尔街只是一场在当代文明的边缘，以不同方式生活的实验，而不是勾画未来新文明的蓝图。
Theirs was essentially a Stone Age civilisation, and yet one that developed the most advanced astronomy and mathematics.
他们的文明本质上属于石器时代的文明。他们发明出了最为先进的天文学和数学知识。
Not just that. among the four ancient civilizations, Chinese civilisation is the only unbroken one.
岂止悠久，在四个古代文明中，中国的文明是唯一历久不衰，薪火不绝的文明。
Prof Morris also provides a fascinating account of the progress of two poles of civilisation.
莫里斯教授还为文明两极的发展提出了一个颇具吸引力的解释。
It has been many centuries since the Mediterranean Sea was the centre of civilisation.
现在距地中海为文明中心的时代已有许多个世纪了。
Of course, civilisation requires a modicum of material prosperity -- enough to provide a little leisure.
当然，文明的发展需要一定程度的物质繁荣，至少让人们在饱暖之余还能有一点休闲娱乐。
Mr Allawi, himself a Shia Muslim, believes the mystical (or Sufi) tradition must be an integral part of the revival of Islamic civilisation.
身为什叶派穆斯林的阿拉维认为复兴能够伊斯兰文明，其宗教的神秘传统（苏菲派）必不可少。
