Perhaps the one item which defines modern civilization more than any other is paper.

或许纸张比任何其它事物更能诠释现代文明吧。

Most continents don't have anybody living on them who are completely unaware of modern civilization.

地球上的大多数大陆都没有完全不知道现代文明的人。

Satellite electronics would be fried, too, and we depend on those satellites for our modern civilization.

卫星电子设备也会被烧毁，而我们的现代文明依赖于这些卫星。

The energy miracle that's allowed for modern civilization is primarily based on hydrocarbons, that is coal, gasoline, natural gas.

现代文明所带来的能量奇迹主要基于碳氢化合物，即煤、汽油、天然气。

It's covered with extremely dense forests, dangerous wildlife and historically has never really been developed by any modern civilization.

这里覆盖着极其茂密的森林，还有危险的野生动物，而且历史上从未被任何现代文明真正开发过。

On what does modern or Western civilization rest?

1. 现代或西方文明的基础是什么？

This was long before modern civilization.

这是在现代文明出现之前很久。

How do we know that this modern civilization is extending its area of influence?

2、我们怎么知道这个现代文明正在扩大它的影响范围？

It's hard to see how modern civilization as we know it could have survived that.

很难想象我们所知道的现代文明如何能够幸免于难。

Concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization human life has lost its meaning.

关注现代文明的精神分裂，人类生命在其中失去了意义。

Never in the history of political turpitude had any brigand of modern civilization offered a worse example.

在政治堕落的历史上， 现代文明的强盗从未提供过更糟糕的例子。

Herzog laments the worn-out images that surround us in our modern civilization, the posters and postcards, the Hollywood sets, and of course, the television.

赫尔佐格哀叹我们现代文明中破败的图像海报、明信片、好莱坞片场，当然，还有电视影像。

You see the Sentinelese are one of the very last remaining groups of people on earth that have remained virtually untouched and uncontacted from modern civilization.

你看，森蒂纳尔人是地球上仅存的、几乎未受现代文明影响的少数群体之一。

This means that to save the environment, we don't need to completely derail the economy or to abandon the achievements of modern civilization.

这意味着为了保护环境，我们不需要完全破坏经济或放弃现代文明的成就。

Officially part of the India-owned Andaman Islands, the island is home to the Sentinelese, a group of people who live untouched by modern civilization.

该岛正式属于印度拥有的安达曼群岛，是森蒂内尔人的家园， 这是一群未受现代文明影响的人。

The opportunities in a complex modern civilization are of infinite variety, subtle, elastic, incapable of being compassed by fixed regulations for attaining definite objects.

在复杂的现代文明中，机会是无限多样的、微妙的、有弹性的，不能为达到特定的目标而被固定的规则所包围。

This new town, a product of modern civilization, had grown up near the ancient Egdon Woods, where the paths over the hills had not changed for a thousand years.

这个新城镇，作为现代文明的产物，在古老的埃格登森林附近渐渐发展了起来，而那里山峦上的小径千年来都不曾改变过。

Many sociologists fear what would happen to modern civilization should our daily conveniences fail en masse one day, and stay down for a prolonged period of time.

许多社会学家担心，如果有一天我们的日常便利设施全部失效，并长期处于停滞状态，现代文明会发生什么变化。

And I really cannot see that the alchemist who spent his life in the attempted manufacture of gold was a more respectable object than the outside jobber of modern civilization'.

而且我真的看不出，毕生致力于制造黄金的炼金术士比现代文明的外行更受人尊敬。”

It has been said that the Mediterranean Sea was the center of ancient civilization; that modern civilization has developed on the shores of the Atlantic;and that the future belongs to the Pacific.

——据说地中海是古代文明的中心；现代文明在大西洋沿岸发展起来；未来属于太平洋。