Since Chinese civilization first began to express itself thousands of years ago, its poems and paintings have sung of the beauty of land, the air, the water.

自从中国文明于几千年前诞生之日起，许多中国的诗、画都歌颂了中国的大地、天空和河流之美。

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European civilization was the first to impose itself across the whole world.

欧洲文明是最先传扬到全世界的。

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At first sight, the plain did not appear to be a likely home for a civilization.

乍一看，这片平原似乎不像是一个文明的家园。

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It is a Bronze Age culture, and it is the first civilization we know in the area.

这是一个青铜时代的文明,也是我们在此区域所知道的第一个文明

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And what we find, the first example of a Bronze Age-- and I use the word civilization now for the first time, because before the Bronze Age-- there is nothing that we would define as civilization.

我们发现的第一个文明出现在青铜时代,也是我第一次用文明这个词,因为在青铜时代之前,没有任何东西能称之为文明

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It embraces the comforts and pleasures of modernity, while shrugging off the basic sacrifices that built our civilization in the first place.

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He remarks that the Western civilization is the first one to construct a science, a knowledge and description of nature that negates the sacred altogether.

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