约翰·P·鲁宾逊和杰弗里·戈德比在他们的《生活时间》一书中写道，有时文明就像是“一个被踩瘪的大蚁冢”。

Sometimes culture resembles "one big stomped anthill," wrote John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey in their book Time for Life.

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在帐篷里住了两个星期后又回到人类文明的生活可真好呀！

It's good to be back in civilization after two weeks in a tent!

《牛津词典》

对动物的这种虐待在任何文明的社会里都是无法容忍的。

This barbaric treatment of animals has no place in any decent society.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Even in the passage that I cited earlier, where Hobbes describes the benefits of civil society, he speaks of activities like navigation, exploration and industry.

在我之前引用的段落里，霍布斯描述文明社会,益处的时候,他谈到一些像航海，探险，工业等等的活动。

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There was no separate caste of priests and there was very little concern, I don't mean any concern, but very little concern with life after death which was universally important in other civilizations.

没有独立的教会阶层,城邦里的人们很少关注来生这个概念,很少关注,不是说完全没有关注,此观念在当时的其他文明中是极为重要的

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The state of nature fully continues, in many ways, oddly even in civil society, he says, whenever we have reason to believe that our lives or our properties or ourselves are not secure.

从很多方面来说，自然状态，即使在文明社会里也显得奇怪，不论我们是否有理由相信我们有生活,生命和财产财产安全的保障。

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