本世纪对文明做出最大贡献的很可能是空调，而美国人导致这一情况发生的速度也同样令人惊讶。
The greatest contribution to civilization in the century may well be the air-conditioning and American leads just as amazing is the speed with which this situation came to be.
他说：“所有人，不管是美国人还是其它什么人，在打板球时都是他们最文明的时候。”
"All people, Americans, whoever, are at their most civilized when they're playing cricket," he explains.
《文明的价值——美国价值再苏醒，经济再次繁荣》。
The Price of Civilisation: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity.
一方面我认为这是个对美国文明的悲哀表述，另一方面我讶异于这个数字竟然如此之低。
Part of me thinks that's a sad commentary on American civility. Another part of me is surprised the number is so low.
他发誓，为了复兴美国文明，要把我们带回到50年代的道德规范。
He pledged to take us back to the morality of the 1950s, in order to renew American civilization.
早在50年前，美国天文学家FrankDrake(弗兰克·德瑞克)就已开始搜寻来自外星文明的信号。
FIFTY years ago, an American astronomer called Frank Drake started to search for signals coming from alien civilisations.
改变这个国家的方法是要通过文明的对话，如果美国人民希望，他可以站在客观公正的角度来协调对话。
The way to change the country was by civilised dialogue; and he would mediate it, from the objective middle, if Americans wished him to.
克伦·维斯人被认为是最早的美国文明之一。
Clovis man could be considered one of Americans earliest civilizations.
然而，不同于今天的美国人的是，在罗马共和国几乎没有人认为他们的系统应该，或者可能被神秘古老的东方社会文明所接受。
Unlike Americans of our day, however, few in the Roman Republic felt their system should be, or could be, embraced by others in the mysterious ancient societies of the East.
抗议活动到目前为止还相当文明，但令美国民众大为不满(尤其是在过去两年中)的一个热点问题有可能会再次露头。
So far, it's all been quite civil, but one of the flashpoints of discontent around the country, especially in the last two years, is about to recur.
最终，在他所著的《美国文明》一书中，他记录下了自己对美国的最终印象。
S. to observe the native customs. Eventually he set down his impressions in a book, Civilization in the United States.
换句话说，我们应当心美国文明即世界文明的认识。
We should beware, in other words, of overstating the case that global civilisation is American civilisation.
在赴职新位之前，潘基文明确提出，他的首批任务之一将是打造与美国更加密切的关系。
Before taking up his new post, Mr Ban made it clear that one of his first tasks would be to forge closer relations with the United States.
在美国大陆的西南部，独特的文明在严酷的条件下扎根。
In the southwestern continental United States, distinct civilizations began that had adapted to the harsh arid conditions.
奥利菲尔住进了粗鲁的美国人叫做开化文明社会的地方，帕洛特则住进了充满艺术气息的半上流社会。
Olivier moves in what boorish Americans regard as civilised society. Parrot is at home in the artistic demimonde.
在科蒂斯看来，这是对西班牙文明的一种侮慢，但格里高利•罗德里格斯（Gregory Rodriguez）却盛赞这是对遥远的美国未来的一种洞见。
What Cortés took to be a slight against Spanish civilisation, Gregory Rodriguez hails as a vision of America's future.
虽然社会心理学根植于整个西方文明的知识土壤里，其今日的繁盛却被认为是典型的美国现象。
While the roots of social psychology lie in the intellectual soil of the whole western civilization, its present flowering is recognized to be characteristically an American phenomenon.
他们浅尝阴谋理论，谈论文明的瓦解，谈论投资者需要卖光票据资产、购买黄金并撤到爱达荷（美国西北部一州，1860年当地发现黄金，引发了移民潮）去。
They dabble in conspiracy theories and talk of the collapse of civilisation and the need for investors to sell all paper assets, buy gold and retreat to Idaho.
她与丈夫在二十世纪20、30年代写的书，无论是教材，还是获得了巨大成功的四卷本的《美国文明的兴起(1927-1942)》(The Rise of American Civilization),都有着很高的影响力。
The books she wrote with her husband in the 1920s and 1930s, both the school texts and the enormously successful four-volume The Rise of American Civilization (1927-1942), were highly influential.
美国语言协会是对于古希腊及古罗马语，文献，及文明的经典研究的主要学术协会。
The American Philological Association is the principal learned society for Classical Studies of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations.
默里认为，一条通往“更为文明的对话结构”的路线是可以被发现的，并且它被定位于美国人一致上。
Murray contends that the path to a "more civilized structure of dialogue" can be found, and that it is to be located in the American consensus.
我曾经认为工业化文明的将来具体表现在美国福特汽车生产线内。
I used to think that the future of industrialized civilisation was embodied in the production line of the American Ford motor car.
我曾经认为工业化文明的将来具体表现在美国福特汽车生产线内。
I used to think that the future of industrialized civilisation was embodied in the production line of the American Ford motor car.
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