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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，中國“看起來像是個民族國家，但其地理組成是個文明國家。”
Those changes are frequently enough - though they may have been gradual - to say that there is now a different civilisation.
那些改變往往已足夠。盡管那些改變是漸進的。現在可以說有了個不同的文明。
Express that in terms of your whole civilisation, and if you so desired you could bring peace and prosperity back to Earth very quickly.
擴展這些橫跨你們整個文明，如果你這樣“意愿”，你們將能夠給地球很快的帶來“和平”與“繁榮”。
Maybe that's one of the secrets of Chinese civilisation and why it has lasted so long: that balance of the two sides.
或許這正是中國文明以及它為什么如此淵源流長的秘密之一：儒與道的平衡。
But that does not mean we, as anthropologists, should not use this word 'civilisation' and develop a concept of its usage.
但是這并不意味著我們作為人類學家不能用‘文明’這個詞并且將它的慣用法發展成一個概念。
It is only then that cosmic character will be brought into your civilisation and a state of balance reinstated.
唯有那時，宇宙特性將被帶進你們的文明，復原一種平衡的狀態。
He thought that civilisation fills "man" with unnatural wants and seduces him away from his true nature and original freedom.
他認為文明用各種非自然的欲望充斥“人”，并誘使他偏離自己的真實本性和原初自由。
The human race is in a twilight zone between a dying civilisation on life support and an emerging one trying to find its legs.
人類正處在兩種文明的交替處，一面是進入暮年、茍延殘喘的文明，一面是逐漸興起、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.
這個國家不應以主權和漫長的文明史為自己開脫。
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.
此前的觀念是，中國文化只有一個源頭，黃河是中國文明的唯一搖監。
Indeed it is possible to apply to all societies the word 'civilisation'. I hope to make this clear later.
的確，“文明”，這個詞匯也可能適用于所有的社會，我希望能將此表達清楚。
And when the children behave in their averagely foul, unruly ways, the peace and civilisation of the office offers the most blissful refuge.
當孩子舉止討厭，不受管束（他們常常如此）時，安寧、文明的辦公室就是安樂窩。
The gaunt and grave civilisation of the thirteenth century was presented with that of the nineteenth, grinning, prosperous, and well armed.
十三世紀的貧乏而樸素的文化就和那微笑的，昌盛的而又武裝得很好的十九世紀的文明呈現在一起了。
They also contribute to the level of civilisation that makes this country such an attractive place in which to live and work.
它們還提升了文明的層次，使這個國家充滿魅力，成為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.
他們可能是代表人類文明最后的陣地，當西方這些自由主義者把我們（的國家）都賣給了阿拉伯人。
It must also be broad enough to include the fact that any one civilisation can be a disputed civilisation with many centres.
同樣，文明概念，也應該有足夠廣泛的內涵，來囊括這樣一個事實：既任何一種文明都可能是多中心的，富有爭議性的文明。
To his surprise he found a direct correlation between the age of the civilisation and the number of phonemes in its language.
他驚奇的發現，一個文明它歷史的悠久度以及其語言中所包含的音素數量之間有著一個直接的聯系。
DEPENDING on your viewpoint, tax may be the price of civilisation or it may be a form of legalised theft.
從您的視角看，稅收或許是文明的代價，亦或許是一種合法偷竊的形式。
Indeed, its role in the history of civilisation has "far surpassed [that of] any other expanse of sea" .
確實，在世界文明史上，地中海的影響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.
自從上次冰河時代末期以來，我們人類已有四百代人利用這種穩定性的優勢建設我們的文明。
The decipherment of the Mayan glyphs revealed that the New World had a sophisticated, literate civilisation at the time of the Roman empire.
瑪雅文字的破譯向我們展示了一個與羅馬帝國同時代的錯綜復雜的新大陸——一個同樣有著高度文明的國度。
To pay for sex is to strip away the veneer of artifice and civilisation and connect with the true animal nature of man.
為性付費，這樣才能去除陰謀和文明的虛飾，使我們恢復真正的動物本性。
The Mayan civilisation was one of the most spectacular in pre-Columbian history.
瑪雅文明是哥倫布之前歷史上最令人嘆為觀止的文明之一。
Perhaps we now have an explanation of its origin - a folk memory of a real ancient civilisation swallowed by the sea.
一段民間記憶記載了一個真實存在但最后卻被大海吞沒的古老文明–也許我們現在可以解釋它的由來了。
They Began to see its weaknesses and the less edifying aspects of its civilisation .
他們開始看到中國的弱點，以及中國文明的其他較缺少啟發性的一面。
Retirement at 60 in an ageing society is not a sign of civilisation, but a cruel joke played on the next generation.
老齡化社會60歲的退休年齡絕不是文明的象征，而是對下一代開了一個殘酷的玩笑。
At a time of crisis for free-market liberalism everywhere, it must rank as a central goal of Western civilisation.
在自由市場自由主義的危機時刻，這必須是西方文明的核心目標。
Electronic book technology is a revolutionary breakthrough in modern civilisation, making is possible to shake off thick and heavy books.
電子書籍技術是現代文明中的革命性突破，使人們得以擺脫厚重的書本。
Barbarism had not been able entirely to eradicate the culture and civilisation of ancient Rome.
愚昧落后并不能完全歸咎于古羅馬文化和文明的滅絕；
The civilisation in Central America today is not at all like the civilisation there a thousand years ago.
現今的中美洲文明與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“文明國家”或許是用同樣的精神來討論的吧。
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.
我們的文明將無法以任何一種目前的形式維系，不過我們至少能有目標地穩步后撤，回到一個更理智的世界。
They certainly had a long run, but I'd have thought the ancient Egyptian civilisation has any of the Mesopotamian ones beat.
他們確實有一段很長的歷史，但我認為古埃及文明各個方面都完勝兩河文明。
Occupy Wall Street is an experiment in living differently on the margins of this civilisation, not a blueprint for a new one.
占領華爾街只是一場在當代文明的邊緣，以不同方式生活的實驗，而不是勾畫未來新文明的藍圖。
Theirs was essentially a Stone Age civilisation, and yet one that developed the most advanced astronomy and mathematics.
他們的文明本質上屬于石器時代的文明。他們發明出了最為先進的天文學和數學知識。
Not just that. among the four ancient civilizations, Chinese civilisation is the only unbroken one.
豈止悠久，在四個古代文明中，中國的文明是唯一歷久不衰，薪火不絕的文明。
Prof Morris also provides a fascinating account of the progress of two poles of civilisation.
莫里斯教授還為文明兩極的發展提出了一個頗具吸引力的解釋。
It has been many centuries since the Mediterranean Sea was the centre of civilisation.
現在距地中海為文明中心的時代已有許多個世紀了。
Of course, civilisation requires a modicum of material prosperity -- enough to provide a little leisure.
當然，文明的發展需要一定程度的物質繁榮，至少讓人們在飽暖之余還能有一點休閑娛樂。
Mr Allawi, himself a Shia Muslim, believes the mystical (or Sufi) tradition must be an integral part of the revival of Islamic civilisation.
身為什葉派穆斯林的阿拉維認為復興能夠伊斯蘭文明，其宗教的神秘傳統（蘇菲派）必不可少。
