"文明的故事"是个多义词，它可以指文明的故事（(英)韦尔斯所著书籍）,文明的故事（[美] 威尔·杜兰特所著书籍）。
只有某些传承下来的文明才用古迹和遗址来铭记其成就，但所有的文明都用语言、故事和词典来记录其智慧。
Only some cultures erect grand built monuments by which we can remember their achievements. But all cultures encode their genius in their languages, stories, and lexicons.
1924年以贝克兰为封面的一期时代杂志的封面人物故事报道说，那些知晓酚醛潜力的人“声称再过几年它就会体现在现代文明的每一个机械设备上”。
A 1924 Time cover story on Baekeland reported that those familiar with Bakelite's potential "claim that in a few years it will be embod-ied in every mechanical facility of modern civilization".
但他最著名的故事中有一个，即亚特兰蒂斯古文明的突然毁灭，却几乎是一个不折不扣的谎言。
But one of his most famous stories-the cataclysmic destruction of the ancient civilization of atlantis-is almost certainly false.
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