India is an ancient civilisation but a youthful country.

文明古国印度也是一个年轻的国家。

Eventually, their civilisation descended into chaos and warfare.

最后他们的文明也陷入混乱与战争中。

The Apollo surely embodies a higher state of civilisation.

阿波罗雕像无疑是更高文明程度的体现。

And in recent years, there is a greater understanding about why such ancient civilisations flourished here.

近年来，人们对这些古代文明为什么会这里繁荣有了更多的理解。

He regarded the nation-state as the basic building-block of civilisation.

戴高乐认为单一民族的独立国家是文明的基本组成部分。

Subsidy is about education, preserving the pinnacles of our civilisation.

补助是为了教育，保护我们文明的尖峰。

They sounded strangely in the tropical night thousands of miles from civilisation.

在热带的夜晚，在这样一个离开人类文明几千里以外的地方，这些曲调给人以一种奇异的感觉。

And it has all of the civilisation benefits as any Western European city.

而且普拉市的文明福利和西欧城市的一样。

Because they were the only two civilisations at that point that actually used writing.

它们是当时仅有的两个使用文字的文明。

With civilisation facing annihilation, it was up to America to save Western culture from fascism.

现代文明面临被消灭的危险，美国必须要站出来把西方文明从法西斯的魔爪中拯救出来。

The law of property, which is the cornerstone of any civilisation worthy of the name.

物权法，任何名副其实的文明都以此为基础。

It has been, and remains, part of every known civilisation on Earth.

它曾是且仍然是地球上任何一个已知文明的一部分。

This wasn't Athens, where other aspects of civilisation, like arts and philosophy were high priority.

这不是雅典，在那里文明的其他方面，如艺术和哲学，是重中之重。

It tells us that past civilisations understood mathematics a lot better than we thought.

它告诉我们过去的文明对数学的理解比我们想象的要好得多。

Unlike ancient civilisations, modern astronomers have sent satellites to land on Mars and explore its surface.

与古代文明不同，现代天文学家已经发射卫星登陆火星并探索其表面。

I’m more into cultural holidays – you know, visiting the ruins of ancient civilisations.

我更喜欢具有文化气息的假期，例如参观古老文明的遗迹。

“The whole problem of art, ” he said, “is to establish human values in this specific civilisation.”

“艺术的全部问题” “就是在这个特定的文明中建立人的价值”。

I think that's a really important lesson to learn - about how civilisations evolve. - Yeah.

我认为这是学习-文明如何进步的重要一课 -是的。

Later civilisations would value the skilled blacksmith's labour in a nail even more than the raw material.

后来的文明更加重视一个熟练铁匠在一枚钉子上的劳动，甚至超过了原材料本身的价值。

This concept has been around for thousands of years and all major civilisations used slaves at some point.

这个概念已经持续了数千年，全部主要的文明被用在这一点上。