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

但我总觉得事事要邀获别人批准，或许文明人类最根深蒂固种天性。

Born in a civilised family, Anne was delicately nurtured.

安妮出生在个文明家庭，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" 随便闲谈，边思忖：文明社会这样消磨自己心智，把短促生命浪费在无聊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”.

消费时代单文化令他心生厌倦，早在写作《忧郁热带》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人，有天，他们将重塑他们首都爱丁堡，作为对罗马文化建筑致敬。

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时间吃饭了，可别回来晚了。

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《英法协约》描述成了“对种虽然缓慢但不可阻挡趋势表达——世界文明国度之间不可能爆发。”

'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。'我们这里文明世界，不容许有这种蠢事发生！这东西哪里来？’

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 他把世界上人划分为 生活在被人为干预过 文明社会中人 和那些生活在自然 蛮荒状态下人。

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“在文明民族历史上，几乎没有出现过其它案例，即人们能够对人类苦难如此漠不关心。”

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成为种永恒斗象征。对雅典人而言，每个文明城邦都需要斗。

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教养容不得你这样观念以外，我不想再说别话了。

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，酒店大舞厅文雅环境提供了竞模拟画面。

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！和文明生活中任何观察样真实。

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，在个非常文明法院家庭里，她对她同事们尊重，不管他们保守还不保守。

“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类自身局限，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.

而当时说法，大家都轻视克劳迪斯，认为他个小丑，却没有意识到他实际上个极其文明、博学且正直统治者。

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.

作为哲学目标对世界理论理解，对于动物、野蛮人，甚至大多数文明人来说，都不个具有重大实践意义问题。

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