T. S. Eliot's the Waste Land is famous for its keen depiction of the fragmentation and alienation characteristic of modern civilization.

艾略特的《荒原》以其对现代文明的支离破碎与异化的精妙描写而著称。

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just in a sense that when she was taking, say, I don't know, class like C.C., which is Contemporary Civilization, or Lit. Hum.,

就好像她在上论当代文明，或人类文学这样的课程时，我不太清楚，

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You don't need me to tell you that human civilization is very, very old.

人类的文明是非常非常古老的,这不用我来告诉大家了吧。

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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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Yet its importance in the evolution of human civilization can't be denied.

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It wasn't for Islam to replace democracy, it wasn't for Islam to replace America, it wasn't for Islam to replace Western Civilization.

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Besides, it doesn't make sense to tease an alien civilization with just a "hello, " considering that it could take millennia before we hear back from them.

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