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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

What about the Buddha, Gautama, who started a movement that eventually grew into a great religious and cultural civilisation?

开创了伟大的宗教和文化文明的佛祖释迦牟尼呢？

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。

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。

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。

Many ancient civilisations developed rites such as dances in order to make the weather gods look kindly on them.

很多古文明发展出一套仪式，比如说舞蹈来祈求气候之神的庇佑。

As with many ancient civilisations, no one really knows the exact date when the city-state of Sparta was founded.

与许多古代文明一样，没有人真正知道斯巴达城邦建立的确切日期。

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。

The Open University has produced a free poster that explores the history of different civilisations through artefacts.

开放大学制作了一张免费的海报通过艺术品来探索不同文明的历史。

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。