It towered above the older buildings like a citadel, which indeed it was, the outpost of a new age, perhaps a new civilization, perhaps a new barbarism.

它屹立在古老的建筑之上，像一座城堡，也的确是一个新时代的前哨，这种前哨可能意味着一种新文明，也可能是一种新野蛮。

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We do not ask for the death penalty: barbarism must not be met with barbarism.

我们并不要求死刑：不能以暴制暴。

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Marx, as we have seen , did indeed believein progress and civilisation; but he considered that, so far at least, they hadproved inseparable from barbarism and benightedness.

马克思，正如我们所知道的，非常确信进步和文明，但是他认为，至少到目前为止，它们已经被证明与野蛮和愚昧如影随形。

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Excerpt (White): The Turner thesis is very simple: What made Americans was the existence of free land in the West, and it was the constant settlement of that free land, the retreat back to nature--back to barbarism almost--and then the recapitulation of progress out of this initial retreat that made Americans who they are.

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The US wisely capitalized on tribal leaders' disaffection with al-Qaida barbarism and worked with them to launch an offensive against al-Qaida forces and to bring the Sunni tribes into the political processes in Iraq.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Where America and Iraq converge

Its strength derives in part from the architectural barbarism of the post-war years, when Victorian terraces were bulldozed and replaced with brutalist blocks.

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