难以想象，希腊人可以在没有与这些东方文明的联系情况下，建立了一个伟大的文明。

It is inconceivable the Greeks could have developed a civilization that they did without contact with these eastern civilizations.

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在那个印第安人的身边，站着一个身上混穿着文明与野蛮服装的白种人，无疑是那印第安人的同伴。

By the Indian's side, and evidently sustaining a companionship with him, stood a white man, clad in a strange disarray of civilised and savage costume.

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霍金通过人类学的预测指出在与粗鲁的外星人近距离接触中，我们作为低等文明，将处于完全不利的境地。

Hawking extrapolates from anthropology to point out that the inferior culture — us in this case — would get the short end of the stick in any such close encounter of the rude kind.

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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。

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Well, if you take a look at the Greek civilization let us say in the classical period, those other cultures wouldn't have had a clue what the Greeks were doing, so different was the Greek experience from theirs.

如果你看一看希腊文明,让我们以古典时期为例,其他文明,都不会理解希腊人在做什么,希腊人与他们的经历是如此不同

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