They make China own an important and even top position in the history of human civilization.

他们让中国站在了人类文明历史的重要地位甚至是最高地位。

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In short, our brain evolved circuits to allow us to experience sympathy, which in turn made civilization, and an ethics based on sympathy, possible.

简而言之，我们的大脑进化出了让我们体验同情的回路，这反过来又使文明和基于同情的伦理成为可能。

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All these findings seem to indicate that they are the remains of an ancient civilization that was every bit as advanced as other more famous civilizations of the time.

所有这些发现似乎表明，它们是一个古代文明的遗迹，与当时其它更著名的文明一样先进。

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Or maybe,instead of a radio signal, an alien civilization sent us something physical.

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There are all kinds of things that it might be very useful ; for you to know as an inhabitant of Western civilization; and the New Testament,you might find out, would rank kind of down on the list of those kinds of things.

作为西方文明的一分子,有很多有用的东西可以学;,而新约，你会发现，与这些东西相比，排名比较靠后。

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Second, a sense of crisis, a radical break in culture, an overturning of conventional artistic forms that goes with a sense that civilization itself is being overturned.

第二，危机感，文化上根本性突破，与文明本身被颠覆同时进行的,颠覆传统艺术模式的运动。

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Staring an advanced civilization straight in the face, the Roman dismissed it as either barbarism or decadence.

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You finally reach something of an actual civilization in the city of Sarn.

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Besides, it doesn't make sense to tease an alien civilization with just a "hello, " considering that it could take millennia before we hear back from them.

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