The idea is that Italy is the cradle of European civilisation.

这个观念是意大利是欧洲文明的发祥地。

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He really thinks that European civilisation is morally bankrupt.

他确实认为欧洲文明道德沦丧。

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Mr Ferguson starts with the overwhelming success of European civilisation.

在书中，费格斯先生以欧洲文明势不可挡的成功起头。

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In graphic detail, the murderer cast himself as a latter-day crusader who would redeem European civilisation from invasion by Muslim hordes.

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Donald Lewis, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong, argues that if the great invention of European civilisation was a legal system, China's was bureaucracy.

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Already before taking over the EU presidency Mr Berlusconi had committed several big political gaffes, such as publicly claiming that European civilisation was "superior" to that of Islam.

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