So a woman is sent to Enkidu and her job is to provide the sexual initiation that will tame and civilize Enkidu.

所以一个女人被送到Enkidu面前,用性让他变得驯服，更加文明。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The earth experiences he says certain periodic destructions and cataclysms civilizations are reduced to barbarism only to recover and grow again.

他说，世界不断经历,阶段性的摧残及剧变,文明虽被降格至野蛮,但终究会复原并再次茁壮。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And the Spanish, a much smaller group of people was able to overtake the Aztec civilization, very well established, because that group of people was devastated by the disease.

那些西班牙人,只是一支较小的队伍,他们之所以战胜高度发达的阿兹特克文明,是因为阿兹特克人被这种疾病摧残了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I think it's very important to notice that some of these places that were big in the Mycenaean world were entirely abandoned and not settled again by the Greeks.

我认为值得注意的是,这些地方中有些是,在迈锡尼文明中占据重要地位的城邦,就这样被彻底遗弃了,而且并没有被希腊人重建

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选