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。

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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，

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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

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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。

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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

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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。

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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。

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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

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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

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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。

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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

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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。

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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

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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。

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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

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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。

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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

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