| 41. | The city at one time must have been prosperous, for it enjoyed a high level of civilization . |
| 这座古城肯定一度很繁荣，因为它曾享有高度的文明，
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| 42. | And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization . |
| 虽然在美国历史上没有任何时期或地区像西部拓荒时期那样被荒谬地浪漫主义化了，但神话和事实至少在某一个舞台上共存，也就是存在于个人与渐渐闯入的文明这两者的冲突之中。
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| 43. | Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out, punctuated by textbooks -- those purchasable wells of wisdom-what would civilization be like without its benefits? |
| 教育，以其教学周期如此精心地安排，并以教科书 -- 那些可以买到的智慧源泉 -- 予以强化，如果不受其惠，文明将会是个什么样子呢？
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| 44. | Such a messenger, receiving our radio and television signals, might well re-transmit them back to its home-planet, although what impression any other civilization would thus get from us is best left unsaid. |
| 这种自动化信息装置，在接收到我们的无线电和电视信号后，完全有可能把这些信号发回到原来的行星。至于其他文明行星对我们地球会有什么印象，还是不说为好。
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| 45. | It is only in the study of man himself that the major social sciences have substituted the study of one local variation, that of Western civilization . |
| 我们同异教徒之间存有的区别在人的思想中占主工导地位，那么人类学按其定义来说就无法存在。
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| 46. | The village was a backwater of civilization . |
| 这个村庄是一个文化落后的地方。
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| 47. | It proved a new era in the march of civilization . |
| 它在人类文明的进程中开创了一个新纪元。
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| 48. | He considers the unregulated birthrate the greatest menace of civilization .. |
| 他认为无节制的出生率是对文明的最大威胁。
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| 49. | It is unfair to judge primitive people by the standards of our present-day civilization . |
| 用我们当代文明的标准去评价原始人是不公正的。
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| 50. | the continued advance of civilization |
| 文明的不断进步
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