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别人批准，或许是文人类最根深蒂固的一种天性。

Born in a civilised family, Anne was delicately nurtured.

安妮出生在一个文家庭，受到精心呵护。

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

我们终于能在文人吃饭的时间吃饭了，可别回晚了。

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

消费时代的单一文化令他心生厌倦，早在写作《忧郁的热带》之时，他就对“文”社会表现出了失望感。

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

一年一度，酒店大舞厅的文雅环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！和文生活中的任何观察一样真实。

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。

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

而“文”人则好像工程师：通过创新藐视人类自身的局限，改变世界。

The duelists thought of themselves as civilised men, not gladiators.

决斗者认为自己是文人，而不是角斗士。

Let's keep things civilised, shall we, ladies?

文点 女士们？

An eye for an eye is no way to run a civilised justice system.

【eye】文的司法系统不允许以眼还眼、以牙还牙的行为。

Perhaps they could sit down and discuss things in a civilised fashion.

【fashion】也许他们可以坐下心平气和地商量事情。

We were supposed to learn dinner party manners by sitting next to a nice civilised teacher.

我们本应该通过坐在一位文雅的老师旁边学习晚宴礼仪。

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，在一个非常文的法院家庭里，她对她的同事们的尊重，不管他们是保守的还是不保守的。

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这样的观念以外，我不想再说别的话了。

In 48 BC Julius Caesar was the master of Rome,   and of much of the civilised world.

在公元前48年，尤利乌斯·恺撒成为了罗马乃至文世界大部分地区的主宰。

Why did people go from such unimaginable and illogical cruelty through to, well, at least a slightly more civilised society?

为什么人们会从如此难以想象且不合逻辑的残酷社会过渡到，嗯， 至少稍微文一点的社会？

You know, we have a reasonably civilised relationship with the politicians, and certainly a very civilised relationship with civil servants.

你知道，我们与政界人士保持着相当文的关系，与公务员的关系则无疑更为文。

You talk of civilising; there's no such way of civilising the masses of the people as by fixed military service.

你说的是文;没有比固定兵役更能使人民群众文化的方法了。

Again with politics, statesmen are always praising the greatness of Empire, and preaching the moral duty of civilising the savage.

再说政治，政治家总是歌颂帝国的伟大，宣扬文野蛮人的道德义务。