The ancient Aztec civilization in current day Mexico used obsidian for making hunting tools and jewelry.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

That is to say for many, many, many people literary theory had something to do with the end of civilization as we know it.

这就是说对于很多很多人来说,文学理论与,我们所知道的文明的结束有些关联。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

just in a sense that when she was taking, say, I don't know, class like C.C., which is Contemporary Civilization, or Lit. Hum.,

就好像她在上论当代文明，或人类文学这样的课程时，我不太清楚，

介绍好朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Throughout history, the language spoken by a powerful group spreads across a civilization.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

The civilization of the West, however, was not the result of some inevitable process through which other cultures will automatically pass.

然而,西方文明的发展之路,并非经历了其他文明必经之途中,一些不可避免的发展过程

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Long after the fall of the ancient Egyptian civilization, doctors and alchemists in Europe continued the custom of showing a sign of the gods' help and protection.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

And that brings me to my final point about our Hobbesian civilization that conceals from us a very uncomfortable truth.

接下来我要讲的,是霍布斯现代文明观的最后一个观点,它将把一个残酷的现实呈现在我们面前。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Here is part of her performance: The black death demolishes civilization.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

They throw heraldry, they throw every kind of vestige of Old World culture and monarchy and aristocracy and civilization.

他们抛掉了世代相传的家徽,抛掉一切来自旧文明,和旧君主政体的痕迹,抛掉了贵族政治和文明

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"The moral effects around the planet, the increase in morale of the radical jihadists and the damage to western civilization will be incalculable.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Nevertheless, our knowledge of the earliest stages of human civilization was quite limited for many centuries.

然而，几个世纪以来,我们对人类最早时期文明,的认知是很有限的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"Angkor was really the dominant civilization in that part of the world without any question.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Second, a sense of crisis, a radical break in culture, an overturning of conventional artistic forms that goes with a sense that civilization itself is being overturned.

第二，危机感，文化上根本性突破，与文明本身被颠覆同时进行的,颠覆传统艺术模式的运动。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Spaniards never found or they would have destroyed it," After the Incan civilization collapsed, the site was abandoned and the rainforest overgrew it for 400 years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

And the Spanish, a much smaller group of people was able to overtake the Aztec civilization, very well established, because that group of people was devastated by the disease.

那些西班牙人,只是一支较小的队伍,他们之所以战胜高度发达的阿兹特克文明,是因为阿兹特克人被这种疾病摧残了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Or maybe,instead of a radio signal, an alien civilization sent us something physical.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

And so, in addition to philosophical arguments for and against the existence and immortality of the soul, we end the dialogue with a quite moving death scene, one of the great death scenes, if we could call it that, of western civilization.

所以,支持和反对,灵魂的存在与不朽的论证,以一个感人至深的死亡场景告终,这简直就是西方文明史上,最伟大的死亡场景之一,如果我们可以这样说的话

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Fifty years ago this week, a young Cornell University scientist named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at a distant star, hoping to hear transmissions from an alien civilization.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

He was a Victorian historian preoccupied with the dissolution of Western civilization.

他是一个维多利亚时代的历史学家,专门研究西方文明的瓦解。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

When the search began, a half-century ago, it seemed sensible to assume that as technological civilization increased on a planet, more and more signals would be broadcast into space.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

He was captivated by it, he--at one point I think he convinced himself that he was a descendant of the kings of that civilization.

他对其如痴如醉,他...我相信有一段时间他甚至将自己,视为那个文明的王室后裔

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"The planet on which our civilization evolved no longer exists."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Right? Most of them aren't,or about half of them, I think,are not in the Bible,and yet they're very important for the history of Western Civilization.

但是大多数其实并不是，至少一半不是，但是对西方文明历史,却有着极其重要的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

On the the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, this warming planet we live on is posing serious new challenges to human civilization: increasingly severe droughts, floods,and storms across the globe, and slowly rising ocean levels.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Such a sight should send a thrill of horror through the nerves of civilization and impel the heart of humanity to lofty deeds.

如此场景,撼动着人类的文明,鞭笞着人们追求高尚的心灵

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"Language is very important to teach another younger generation of young men and women coming from elementary and high schools for job opportunities and understanding how small the world is and also the contributions the Arab world has given to civilization."

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

You don't need me to tell you that human civilization is very, very old.

人类的文明是非常非常古老的,这不用我来告诉大家了吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Sir Arthur Evans, an Englishman, was responsible for the major work that has revealed that civilization.

英国人阿瑟·埃文斯爵士,为此做出了艰苦卓绝的工作,让这个文明重见天日

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

All the goods of civilization, Hobbes tells us, stem from our ability to control pride.

霍布斯告诉我们说，文明之所以文明，源自于我们对追求荣誉之心的克制。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That's Western civilization, friends, and the Greeks are at the root of the whole thing.

这就是西方的文明,朋友们,而希腊人恰恰是这一切的源头所在

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选