"I like the atmosphere. It's fun to learn things and enjoy a good beer. "I would call this a civilized education."

VOA: special.2010.05.14

So as one reads the epic one senses this very deep ambivalence regarding the relative virtues and evils of civilized life and many of the features that make us human.

当人们读到这一段的时候，总是会对文明生活方式的利弊,产生一种很矛盾的感情,然而正是这些特性让人区别于动物。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

For one thing they're not dressed like civilized people in a dress, they're wearing pants.

首先他们的衣着和文明人不同,他们穿短裤

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The government described these Indians as "civilized."

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Obviously, I started out by saying this would probably have been felt most strongly in the west and in the north, where the people, who lived there, before the Greeks came, were not civilized or were not highly civilized.

明显的是,我开始说到,特别是西方和北方的人们受到的影响最为深远,在希腊人到来之前,居住在那里的人,文明还未开化或者说没有高度文明

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And while the crowd is into the game just as much as the Brazilians, it's still very civilized.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

So you have trade with the Mediterranean and most especially the eastern Mediterranean, because that's where the older, more sophisticated, more civilized cultures were and that's where wealth was too, compared to what was out in the west.

由此你知道了他们与地中海,特别是地中海东部地区有贸易往来,因为在那里有比西方更古老,更先进,更教化的文明,同时相比西方而言,那里也是富裕之地

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"I call on the United Nations to provide support, for the civilized nations of the world to maintain a firm position against barbarity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

He adds that Russia in this field is far behind what he calls the modern civilized world.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

to defeat terrorists. "The forces of terrorism in our region pose a grave threat to the entire civilized world, and have to be defeated,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"The Maronites have never had, and will never have, any site like the Qadisha Valley, in the future, to present the Maronitism as a culture and as a civilized community ...

VOA: standard.2010.08.05