At first sight, the plain did not appear to be a likely home for a civilization.

乍一看，这片平原似乎不像是一个文明的家园。

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I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

我也抵制这样一种观点，即粮食短缺不仅会拖垮个别国家的政府，还会波及全球文明的发展。

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Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

然而，我也反对这样一种观点，即粮食短缺不仅会拖垮个别国家的政府，还会波及全球文明的发展。

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The civilization of the West, however, was not the result of some inevitable process through which other cultures will automatically pass.

然而,西方文明的发展之路,并非经历了其他文明必经之途中,一些不可避免的发展过程

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This was a civilization that was not shut in on itself, but was in touch with the entire Mediterranean region.

迈锡尼文明不是一个封闭的文明,它与整个地中海地区都有着联系

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Right? Most of them aren't,or about half of them, I think,are not in the Bible,and yet they're very important for the history of Western Civilization.

但是大多数其实并不是，至少一半不是，但是对西方文明历史,却有着极其重要的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

What if the true meaning of Rome is not justice but injustice, not civilization but institutionalized barbarism?

NEWYORKER: The Empire Strikes Back

Bromance can now be applied without shame to literary studies of other male pairings, even to those men who do not abandon civilization for the wilderness.

FORBES: Bromance and the American Novel

Excerpt: The wonder of ancient history was not that one civilization, that of Rome and the classical Mediterranean, failed, but that so many others succeeded, many of them brilliantly.

FORBES: Fact and Comment