There was nature; now there is culture, which is very much like an event or birth in the older sense.
有了自然,然后就有了文明,这就像从前说的发展或者诞生。
But because of those discoveries, we are now in a position to appreciate the monumental achievements of these early civilizations, these earliest civilizations.
由于那些考古发现,我们现在才能欣赏到,那些早期文明的不朽成就,最早的文明。
That is to say for many, many, many people literary theory had something to do with the end of civilization as we know it.
这就是说对于很多很多人来说,文学理论与,我们所知道的文明的结束有些关联。
The civilization of the West, however, was not the result of some inevitable process through which other cultures will automatically pass.
然而,西方文明的发展之路,并非经历了其他文明必经之途中,一些不可避免的发展过程
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
And that brings me to my final point about our Hobbesian civilization that conceals from us a very uncomfortable truth.
接下来我要讲的,是霍布斯现代文明观的最后一个观点,它将把一个残酷的现实呈现在我们面前。
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。
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
In ancient culture people worried a great deal about being properly buried, so that's an interesting concept.
在古文明时期,人们很重视死后能否安然入葬,所以那是个很有意思的想法
Something must have led him to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new civilizations and to boldly go where no man had gone before.
某种东西让他探索新的未知世界,探索新的文明,大胆地到没人去过的地方。
This was a civilization that was not shut in on itself, but was in touch with the entire Mediterranean region.
迈锡尼文明不是一个封闭的文明,它与整个地中海地区都有着联系
Nevertheless, our knowledge of the earliest stages of human civilization was quite limited for many centuries.
然而,几个世纪以来,我们对人类最早时期文明,的认知是很有限的。
Cooked" brings "raw" into being in exactly the way culture brings nature into being.
熟食“使“生食“这个概念存在,正如文明使自然存在。
The civility entails the virtues of peace, equity, fairness, playing by the rules.
文明意味着和平,公正,公平,遵纪守法的美德。
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
So, that's what is meant by the term, Dark Ages, and that's what does follow the fall of the Mycenaean world.
那么,这就是这个术语的含义,黑暗时代,它紧随着,迈锡尼文明的陨落到来
There's just no way to explain that except to say that catalog of ships goes back to the Mycenaean Period.
除非《船舶名录》来源于迈锡尼文明时期,否则这点就无法解释了
Their autonomy was assisted by the continuing struggle between popes and Emperors, between church and state, again, a thoroughly unique Western experience.
他们的自治权是在君主和教皇的争斗中,国家与教堂的战争中促成的,这又是一次西方文明独特的经历
So barring that, nonetheless, what we see reminds us very much of these ancient Bronze Age early civilizations.
尽管如此,我们所看到的遗迹依旧,和古代的青铜时期的早期文明非常相似
And then, of course, there's lots of stuff that doesn't have anything to do with the Mycenaean period.
因此也有很多东西,和迈锡尼文明时期无关
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。
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
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
In other words, there is no nature unless you have culture to think it.
换言之,只有用文明来思考它,才有自然这个概念。
Something less easy to say confidently, but probably clear, I think, is the whole legacy of Mycenaean culture is really lost, not fully though.
有些事想确切地说出来不容易,但可能已经比较明白了,我想,就是整个迈锡尼文明留下的遗产,确实遗失了,虽然并不是一点都没留下
That such attacks on the greatest achievements of the west should be made by Western intellectuals is perfectly in keeping with the Western tradition.
这些对于西方灿烂文明的抨击,应该是来自西方学者们的,这与西方的传统相一致
But in any case, what we find are a number of units in the Greek world.
但无论如何,我们在希腊文明遗迹找到许多小的单元
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