They throw heraldry, they throw every kind of vestige of Old World culture and monarchy and aristocracy and civilization.

他们抛掉了世代相传的家徽,抛掉一切来自旧文明,和旧君主政体的痕迹,抛掉了贵族政治和文明

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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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It is a Bronze Age culture, and it is the first civilization we know in the area.

这是一个青铜时代的文明,也是我们在此区域所知道的第一个文明

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