很长一段时间以来，一直有关于文化文明即将死亡的警告。

There's been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time.

youdao

段中第四句是第二点：尊敬老人长期以来就是民族传统--画中的女孩不仅自私无礼而且不文明、令人憎恶。 句中有平行形容词的用法，程度也是渐进的。

Whats more, respecting the old has long been a national tradition-such a person as the girl depicted in the above picture is not only selfish and impolite but also uncivilized and detestable.

youdao

我们也许甚至会在自己远未达到第二阶段水平时就遇到了那个阶段的外星文明。

We might even encounter an alien type II civilization long before we achieve that level ourselves.

youdao

So as one reads the epic one senses this very deep ambivalence regarding the relative virtues and evils of civilized life and many of the features that make us human.

当人们读到这一段的时候，总是会对文明生活方式的利弊,产生一种很矛盾的感情,然而正是这些特性让人区别于动物。

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He was captivated by it, he--at one point I think he convinced himself that he was a descendant of the kings of that civilization.

他对其如痴如醉,他...我相信有一段时间他甚至将自己,视为那个文明的王室后裔

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Because the Mycenaean centers all reveal for that stretch of time that they're scared. The proof of it comes from strengthening their already quite strong walls in almost all the sites that we see, and also--this is a very important fact.

因为在迈锡尼文明的中心,有迹象表明在一段时期,他们受到了威胁,这样说的证据是,我们发现的几乎所有的遗迹,都在本就很坚固的城墙上继续加固,而且,这是一个很重要的史实

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