Civilization involves the establishment of permanent dwelling areas that we call cities, as opposed to villages.

文明意味着建立起一个我们称之为"城市"的,永久性住宅区,和村庄相对

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They did not have great urban cultures and civilizations, long traditions of learning and so on.

他们没有城市文化和文明,没有长期学习的风俗

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What was Romulus' murder of Remus or Cain's murder of Abel, ? but the kind of murder that founded, at the basis of the founding of cities and civilizations?

罗慕洛斯谋杀双胞胎兄弟雷摩斯,或该隐弒杀亲弟埃布尔，不都是为了创建而为的谋杀吗,为了创建城市及人类文明？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

On the one hand it's clearly good that humans rise above the animals and build cities and wear clothes and pursue the arts of civilization and develop bonds of love and duty and friendship the way that animals do not; these are the things that make humans like the gods in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

一方面，成为人类也未尝不是一件好事,人类优于动物，穿着衣服，用自己的双手建造城市,打造文明的生活方式，而爱和责任,把人类联结起来，这些是动物无法比拟的,在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，这些特质让人类具有神性。

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Then it looks like there came a moment where there was a final blow, where whatever was attempting to overthrow these cities and this civilization succeeded, but it was not the same in every place.

接着,看起来最后一击的时刻来临了,颠覆这些城市和这个文明的企图,最终还是成功了,这在各地情况都不尽相同

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