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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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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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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