The Victorians regarded the railways as bringing progress and civilization.
维多利亚时代的人认为铁路带来了进步和文明。
The book contrasts modern civilization with the ideal of the noble savage who lived in harmony with nature.
这本书将现代文明同与自然界和谐相处的高尚野蛮人的理想进行了对比。
Greek civilization had quality; Rome, mere quantity.
希腊文明有质量；罗马文明只有数量。
We won't know whether such "biosignatures" are an indication of slime or civilization.
我们将不会知道那样的“生命信号”所预示的究竟是一堆烂泥还是一种文明。
Two hundred years seems like the blink of an eye in the history of Chinese civilization.
二百年时间在中国文明史上只不过是一瞬间。
There's been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time.
很长一段时间以来，一直有关于文化文明即将死亡的警告。
Chopsticks are highly praised by Westerners as a hallmark of ancient oriental civilization.
筷子被西方人高度赞扬为古代东方文明的标志。
Yet science has a cultural history, too, with roots going back to the dawn of civilization.
然而，科学也有文化历史，其根源可以追溯到文明的黎明。
All the means used by centuries of civilization in subduing wild beasts failed in this case.
几个世纪以来，人类文明用来制服野兽的一切手段在这里都失效了。
As a country with a history of more than 5000 years, China is rich in civilization and culture.
作为一个有着5000年历史的国家，中国有着灿烂的文明文化。
It would be wrong to suggest that Rome was somehow a junior partner in Greco-Roman civilization.
认为罗马是希腊-罗马文明的晚辈这种观念是错误的。
Modern attitudes to Roman civilization range from the infinitely impressed to the thoroughly disgusted.
现代人对罗马文明的态度，从印象极其深刻到彻底厌恶都有。
In the 15th century, Johannes Guttenberg's invention of the printing press in Europe had a huge impact on civilization.
15世纪，约翰内斯·古滕贝格在欧洲发明的印刷机对文明产生了巨大的影响。
Changes in fashion is the inevitable result of the advance of human civilization and is also a mirror of social progress.
时尚变革是人类文明进步的必然结果，也是社会进步的一面镜子。
It is inconceivable the Greeks could have developed a civilization that they did without contact with these eastern civilizations.
难以想象，希腊人可以在没有与这些东方文明的联系情况下，建立了一个伟大的文明。
The cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.
我们预计每年用于拯救文明的开支合计不到2000亿美元，相当于目前全球军费开支的六分之一。
I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.
我也抵制这样一种观点，即粮食短缺不仅会拖垮个别国家的政府，还会波及全球文明的发展。
The collapse of their isolated civilization, Diamond writes, is a "worst-case scenario for what may lie ahead of us in our own future".
戴蒙德写道，他们的孤立文明的崩溃，是“我们未来可能面临的最糟糕的情况”。
Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.
然而，我们预计每年用于拯救文明的开支合计不到2000亿美元，相当于目前全球军费开支的六分之一。
Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.
然而，我也反对这样一种观点，即粮食短缺不仅会拖垮个别国家的政府，还会波及全球文明的发展。
In short, our brain evolved circuits to allow us to experience sympathy, which in turn made civilization, and ethics based on sympathy, possible.
简而言之，我们的大脑进化出了让我们体验同情的回路，这反过来又使文明和基于同情的伦理成为可能。
There is a quality of cohesiveness about the Roman world that applied neither to Greece nor perhaps to any other civilization, ancient or modern.
罗马世界具有一种凝聚力，这种凝聚力既不适用于希腊，也不适用于其他古今文明。
Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization.
现在，第三个也是更重要的动机出现了：为了防止我们文明的崩溃，这些目标可能是必须要实现的。
In short, our brain evolved circuits to allow us to experience sympathy, which in turn made civilization, and an ethics based on sympathy, possible.
简而言之，我们的大脑进化出了让我们体验同情的回路，这反过来又使文明和基于同情的伦理成为可能。
It towered above the older buildings like a citadel, which indeed it was, the outpost of a new age, perhaps a new civilization, perhaps a new barbarism.
它屹立在古老的建筑之上，像一座城堡，也的确是一个新时代的前哨，这种前哨可能意味着一种新文明，也可能是一种新野蛮。
It's every archaeologist's dream to find a lost civilization, to make some huge discovery, to find artifacts no one else has laid a hand on in millennia.
每个考古学家的梦想都是找到一个失落的文明，做出一些重大的发现，找到千年来无人触及的手工艺品。
A country as vast as China with so long-lasting a civilization has a complex social and visual history, within which pottery and porcelain play a major role.
中国这样幅员辽阔、文明源远流长的国家有着复杂的社会和视觉历史，其中陶瓷扮演着重要的角色。
All these findings seem to indicate that they are the remains of an ancient civilization that was every bit as advanced as other more famous civilizations of the time.
所有这些发现似乎表明，它们是一个古代文明的遗迹，与当时其它更著名的文明一样先进。
Some have vanished from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have undergone changes as they have come into contact with an expanding machine civilization.
一些已经从地球表面消失了，其他的正在慢慢地死亡，但所有的都经历了变化，因为它们已经接触到一个不断扩张的机器文明。
If you get lost without a phone or a compass, and you literally can't find north, a few tricks to help you navigate back to civilization, one of which is to follow the land.
如果你在没有电话或指南针的情况下迷路了，你真的找不到北，有一些技巧可以帮助你导航回到文明世界，其中之一就是跟随陆地。
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