我相信在文明国家酷刑早就废止了。

I believed that in civilized countries, torture had ended long ago.

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我也抵制这样一种观点，即粮食短缺不仅会拖垮个别国家的政府，还会波及全球文明的发展。

I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

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然而，我也反对这样一种观点，即粮食短缺不仅会拖垮个别国家的政府，还会波及全球文明的发展。

Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

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And that brings me to my final point about our Hobbesian civilization that conceals from us a very uncomfortable truth.

接下来我要讲的,是霍布斯现代文明观的最后一个观点,它将把一个残酷的现实呈现在我们面前。

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You don't need me to tell you that human civilization is very, very old.

人类的文明是非常非常古老的,这不用我来告诉大家了吧。

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Something less easy to say confidently, but probably clear, I think, is the whole legacy of Mycenaean culture is really lost, not fully though.

有些事想确切地说出来不容易,但可能已经比较明白了,我想,就是整个迈锡尼文明留下的遗产,确实遗失了,虽然并不是一点都没留下

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