"A clash of Arab civilizations; clashes between Arab regimes and their own people, the regimes and their domestic rivals and insurgencies,clashes between Arab regimes themselves."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

But because of those discoveries, we are now in a position to appreciate the monumental achievements of these early civilizations, these earliest civilizations.

由于那些考古发现，我们现在才能欣赏到,那些早期文明的不朽成就，最早的文明。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Sure. So, I went to the University of Toronto where I studied English Literature and Classical Civilizations.

当然可以。我在多伦多大学上学，在那儿我学习英国文学和古典文化。

我的专业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But in his new book, "The Strong Horse: Power,Politics and the Clash of Arab Civilizations,"

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

So: the great civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the area we refer to as the Fertile Crescent, of which a little part here about the size of Rhode Island is Canaan.

古埃及，美索不达米亚地区,我们称之为新月沃地，这里的这一小部分,跟罗德州岛差不多大的是迦南。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"The Strong Horse: Power,Politics,and the Clash of Arab Civilizations,"

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

What oriental? That means mainly the Tigris and Euphrates, Mesopotamia, Syria,all those older civilizations and much more advanced civilizations than the Greek.

哪个东方,这主要指底格里斯河和,幼发拉底河文明,美索不达米亚文明,以及叙利亚文明等这些旧文明,它们都比希腊先进的多

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"We could look for beacons." "It could be that there are alien civilizations that have simply created something a little bit like a lighthouse that sweeps the plane of the galaxy, goes bleep, and it's there to attract attention, or it's a monument, or an aesthetic symbol or even a religious symbol.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

The earth experiences he says certain periodic destructions and cataclysms civilizations are reduced to barbarism only to recover and grow again.

他说，世界不断经历,阶段性的摧残及剧变,文明虽被降格至野蛮,但终究会复原并再次茁壮。

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Here it is not just the venerability of slavery, how old it is, but it's the idea that it has been crucial to the development of all great civilizations.

不仅仅讨论奴隶制的庄严性与历史由来,更是它曾经对人类文明的发展,起过至关重要的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

For example, you can't acquire a land that is common property, so people in terms of the American Indians, I feel like they already have civilizations themselves and they were using land in common.

比如，你不能掠夺公共财产，对于印第安人来说，我觉得他们已经有了自己的文明,他们用的就是公共土地。

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Something must have led him to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new civilizations and to boldly go where no man had gone before.

某种东西让他探索新的未知世界，探索新的文明,大胆地到没人去过的地方。

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We had civilizations-- Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, etc.-- but no wheeled vehicles.

在各个文明中-,例如阿兹台克，玛雅，印加-,都没有轮式交通工具的踪影。

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So barring that, nonetheless, what we see reminds us very much of these ancient Bronze Age early civilizations.

尽管如此,我们所看到的遗迹依旧,和古代的青铜时期的早期文明非常相似

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They did not have great urban cultures and civilizations, long traditions of learning and so on.

他们没有城市文化和文明,没有长期学习的风俗

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It is inconceivable the Greeks could have developed a civilization that they did without contact with these eastern civilizations and learned a great deal from them.

难以想象,希腊人可以在脱离与东方的联系,并未向东方学习的情况下,建立一个与其同样伟大的文明

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There was no separate caste of priests and there was very little concern, I don't mean any concern, but very little concern with life after death which was universally important in other civilizations.

没有独立的教会阶层,城邦里的人们很少关注来生这个概念,很少关注,不是说完全没有关注,此观念在当时的其他文明中是极为重要的

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The many civilizations adopted by the human race have shared basic characteristics.

人类承袭的多样文明,都有着共同的基本特征

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What was Romulus' murder of Remus or Cain's murder of Abel, ? but the kind of murder that founded, at the basis of the founding of cities and civilizations?

罗慕洛斯谋杀双胞胎兄弟雷摩斯,或该隐弒杀亲弟埃布尔，不都是为了创建而为的谋杀吗,为了创建城市及人类文明？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So the union of a universalist religion, with a monarch such as the Roman Empire, who ruled a vast empire, could nonetheless have put an end to any prospect of freedom as in other civilizations.

所以说,若是由信普救说者教会,与罗马帝国为代表的君主政体结盟,便会断送,其他文明中存在的自由前景

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The reason for that I think is that the early times in which these civilizations arose saw all kinds of dangers coming, and the most--the swiftest, the least suspected, the one that could come upon you overnight came from the sea.

在我看来原因是,在这些文明所诞生的早期世界危机四伏,而来的最迅速,最难以预测,最可能,一夜之间骤然降临的灾难,正来自于海上

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Roughly speaking, about 1200 B.C., we hear of general attacks that are going on around the Mediterranean against the various civilizations of which we know.

大致说来,大概在公元前一千二百年,爆发了以地中海周围,我们所知的各种文明为攻击对象的,全面战争

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That is, until the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which unearthed for us the great civilizations of the Ancient Near East, of which I have drawn a remarkably life-like map ] here on the board: Mediterranean, I always start with the Mediterranean Ocean, the Nile River, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

直到十九至二十世纪,一些重大的考古发现，才让我们了解到,远古近东的文明,我已经在黑板上画了一幅,栩栩如生的地图了：,地中海，我总是从地中海讲起，尼罗河，底格里斯河，还有幼发拉底河。

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