因此，我们听到的任何其他文明的平均年龄都可能比我们自己的年龄大得多。

Thus any other civilisation that we hear from is likely to be far older, on average, than ourselves.

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他们与其他文明有贸易往来吗？

Did they trade with those other civilizations?

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纸的使用传到了国外，促进了其他文明记载和传播他们的思想。

The use of paper spread abroad, helping other cultures record and spread their ideas.

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The civilization of the West, however, was not the result of some inevitable process through which other cultures will automatically pass.

然而,西方文明的发展之路,并非经历了其他文明必经之途中,一些不可避免的发展过程

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There was no separate caste of priests and there was very little concern, I don't mean any concern, but very little concern with life after death which was universally important in other civilizations.

没有独立的教会阶层,城邦里的人们很少关注来生这个概念,很少关注,不是说完全没有关注,此观念在当时的其他文明中是极为重要的

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They're shut out for the same reasons.

由于当地其他文明的强权,希腊人被驱逐

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