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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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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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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What was Romulus' murder of Remus or Cain's murder of Abel, ? but the kind of murder that founded, at the basis of the founding of cities and civilizations?

罗慕洛斯谋杀双胞胎兄弟雷摩斯,或该隐弒杀亲弟埃布尔，不都是为了创建而为的谋杀吗,为了创建城市及人类文明？

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The many civilizations adopted by the human race have shared basic characteristics.

人类承袭的多样文明,都有着共同的基本特征

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Here it is not just the venerability of slavery, how old it is, but it's the idea that it has been crucial to the development of all great civilizations.

不仅仅讨论奴隶制的庄严性与历史由来,更是它曾经对人类文明的发展,起过至关重要的作用

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On the one hand it's clearly good that humans rise above the animals and build cities and wear clothes and pursue the arts of civilization and develop bonds of love and duty and friendship the way that animals do not; these are the things that make humans like the gods in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

一方面，成为人类也未尝不是一件好事,人类优于动物，穿着衣服，用自己的双手建造城市,打造文明的生活方式，而爱和责任,把人类联结起来，这些是动物无法比拟的,在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，这些特质让人类具有神性。

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