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In the last two centuries, both these most characteristic elements of Western civilization have in fact become increasingly under heavy attack.
近两个世纪以来,西方文明这些,最具代表性的因素实际上,正遭到越来越多的抨击
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There are all kinds of things that it might be very useful ; for you to know as an inhabitant of Western civilization; and the New Testament,you might find out, would rank kind of down on the list of those kinds of things.
作为西方文明的一分子,有很多有用的东西可以学;,而新约，你会发现，与这些东西相比，排名比较靠后。
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He was a Victorian historian preoccupied with the dissolution of Western civilization.
他是一个维多利亚时代的历史学家,专门研究西方文明的瓦解。
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Because of Western civilization's emergence as the exemplary civilization, it also presents problems to the whole world.
虽然西方文明的崛起,作为现代文明的模板,但是它也反映出了世界范围内的现存问题
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And the dialogue ends with one of the great moving death scenes in western civilization and as Plato says-- let's get the quote here exactly right-- "Of all those we have known, he was the best and also the wisest and the most upright."
然后对话以一个,西方文明史上最伟大感人的死亡场景结束,用柏拉图的话说,让我们引用的更准确些,在我们所知的所有人中,他是最好,最有智慧,最正直的人
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And musical notation is relied on more in Western music than any other musical civilization around the world.
而音乐记谱法在西方音乐中更受倚重,比在全世界其它音乐文明中地位更高
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Right? Most of them aren't,or about half of them, I think,are not in the Bible,and yet they're very important for the history of Western Civilization.
但是大多数其实并不是，至少一半不是，但是对西方文明历史,却有着极其重要的意义。
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That's Western civilization, friends, and the Greeks are at the root of the whole thing.
这就是西方的文明,朋友们,而希腊人恰恰是这一切的源头所在
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Much more from Plato. So again it raises the issue, if you want to know most about the most influential aspects for Western civilization, would it be better for you to take an entire semester on Plato than it would on the New Testament?
源自柏拉图，所以又回到这个问题上了，如果你想了解,西方文明最有影响力的方方面面，那是不是参加有关柏拉图课程,比新约课程更有用呢？
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It floats around in Western civilization all the time.
这种冲突在从古至今一直在西方文明中飘荡
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And so, in addition to philosophical arguments for and against the existence and immortality of the soul, we end the dialogue with a quite moving death scene, one of the great death scenes, if we could call it that, of western civilization.
所以,支持和反对,灵魂的存在与不朽的论证,以一个感人至深的死亡场景告终,这简直就是西方文明史上,最伟大的死亡场景之一,如果我们可以这样说的话
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Now, let me carry on with this by talking about the views of society which are characteristic of the two traditions in Western civilization.
下面我们继续,来谈一下有关于,体现了这两种不同西方文明传统,及其特点的社会观
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So, it seems to me,that Western civilization,ever since, has been a composite of these two traditions.
因此,在我看来,西方文化从那时至今,都是两种传统的复合物
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Now, I've been saying kind things about Western civilization, but I would not want to deny that there is a dark side to the western experience and its way of life.
我刚刚一直说的都是西方文明光辉的一面,但我是不得不承认,西方文明,也有它黑暗的一面
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So, I want to turn now to the way in which this way of thinking had an impact on the future, and of course I'm speaking about the future of Western civilization which was the heir to this tradition.
所以,我现在想说的是,这样的思考方式对之后的历史有着重大影响,当然,我所说的之后的历史,是对西方文明而言的,因为西方文明继承了这个传统
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Non-Western peoples who wish to share in the things that characterize modernity will need to study the ideas and history of Western civilization to achieve what they want, and westerners, I would argue, who wish to preserve these things must do the same.
希望分享西方现代特点的,非西方人士需要学习,西方文明的思想和历史,以实现自己的理想,而对西方,而我要说,那些希望,保留自身文明的西方人,也必须做相同的事
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It'd be actually much more valuable for you to know how to ; right?--if you're getting along in Western civilization; or how to use computers,or sexual technique, or how to speak other languages.
懂得如何修车,对吗，如果你要融入西方文明;,还要懂得如何使用电脑，性技巧，说一门或多门外语。
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