But the desire for approbation is perhaps the most deeply seated instinct of civilised man.

但是我总觉得事事要邀获人批准，或许是文明人最根深蒂固的种天性。

Born in a civilised family, Anne was delicately nurtured.

安妮出在个文明家庭，受到精心呵护。

I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to " take in, " that civilised man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.

我边和位叫我" 陪同" 的女客随便闲谈，边思忖：文明社会样消磨自己的心智，把短促的命浪费在无聊的应酬上实在令人莫解。

The consumer filth and monoculture of the “civilised” world had depressed him ever since the writing of “Tristes Tropiques”.

消费时代的单文化令他心厌倦，早在写作《忧郁的热带》之时，他就对“文明”社会表现出了失望感。

The Picts and Scots who were seen as the least civilised people on earth by the Romans would, one day, renew their capital city, Edinburgh, as an architectural homage to Roman culture.

皮克特人和苏格兰人被罗马人视为地球上最不文明的人，有天，他们将重塑他们的首都爱丁堡，作为对罗马文化的建筑致敬。

For once, we can eat when civilised people eat, so don't be late back.

我们终于能在文明人吃饭的时间吃饭了，可回来晚了。

In June 1913 it described the recent entente cordiale between Britain and France as “the expression of tendencies which are slowly but surely making war between the civilised communities of the world an impossibility.”

1913年6月，它把英法两国最近签署的《英法协约》描述成了“对种虽然缓慢但不可阻挡的趋势的表达——世界文明国度之间的战争是不可能爆发的。”

'Pooh! ' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. Where does the thing come from? '

‘呸！'他壮着胆子说。'我们里是文明世界，不容许有种蠢事发！西是哪里来的？’

Like most Europeans, he saw the world as being divided between those who lived civilised, somewhat artificial lives and those who had remained in a natural, savage state.

和大多数欧洲人样 他把世界上的人划分为 活在被人为干预过的 文明社会中的人 和那些活在自然 蛮荒状态下的人。

Yet he could think of " few other cases in the history of civilised peoples where human suffering has been viewed with such peculiar indifference."

然而，他可以想到“在文明民族的历史上，几乎没有出现过其它的案例，即人们能够对人的苦难如此的漠不关心。”

The struggle against the Centaurs that we see on the metopes becomes an emblem of the perpetual battle that, for the Athenians, every civilised state has to fight.

排档间饰上与半人马的战争成为种永恒的战斗的象征。对雅典人而言，每个文明的城邦都需要战斗。

Please, Ms. West. I prefer not to discuss it, except to say that your values have no place in a civilised home!

够了，维斯特小姐。除了告诉你以我们家的教养容不得你样的观念以外，我不想再说的话了。

Now, if you can all put your swords away, perhaps we can finish our dinner in a civilised manner.

如果你们都能收起唇枪舌剑，或许我们可以好好吃完晚饭。

Once a year the civilised surroundings of a large hotel ballroom provide a simulacrum of that competition.

年度，酒店大舞厅的文雅环境提供了竞争的模拟画面。

Algernon. It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilised life should be.

阿尔吉侬。措辞完美！和文明活中的任何观察样真实。

What did not change was her regard for her colleagues, conservative or not, in the wonderfully civilised family that was the court.

没有改变的是，在个非常文明的法院家庭里，她对她的同事们的尊重，不管他们是保守的还是不保守的。

“Civilised” man, on the other hand, tried to defy his constraints and change the world with new inventions, like an engineer.

而“文明”人则好像工程师：通过创新发明来藐视人自身的局限，来改变世界。

And the line was, you know, everyone dismissed Claudius and he was a buffoon and they didn't realise that he was actually an incredibly civilised and erudite and, you know, decent ruler.

而当时的说法是，大家都轻视克劳迪斯，认为他是个小丑，却没有意识到他实际上是个极其文明、博学且正直的统治者。

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

作为哲学目标的对世界的理论理解，对于动物、野蛮人，甚至大多数文明人来说，都不是个具有重大实践意义的问题。

However, this confirmed my first opinion, that a people who could so far civilise brute animals, must needs excel in wisdom all the nations of the world.

然而，证实了我的最初看法，认为个能够如此文明化野兽的民族，必定在智慧上超越世界上所有国家。