Second, a sense of crisis, a radical break in culture, an overturning of conventional artistic forms that goes with a sense that civilization itself is being overturned.

第二，危机感，文化上根本性突破，与文明本身被颠覆同时进行的,颠覆传统艺术模式的运动。

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In the years of the Mycenaean period, roughly from 1600 to 1100 or so B.C., you are dealing with a largely unified culture.

在大约公元前一千六百年,至公元前一千一百年,迈锡尼文明时期,你将看到一个高度统一的文化

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What you see is a kind of cultural unity, first of all, within the Mycenaean world itself.

你看到的是一种文化的统一体,首先,在迈锡尼文明内部文化就是统一的

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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

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Of course, with cities we typically find a whole association of cultural characteristics, which we deem civilization.

当然,我们总能从城市中找到一系列,独具代表性的文化特征,我们将其界定义为文明

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