To have any hope of overcoming these challenges, we have to start by reclaiming our civic dialogue from those who are debasing and degrading it — and preventing us from getting things done.

为了争取克服这些挑战，我们必须那些阻止我们实现目标贬低文明对话的人无法得逞。

As a civilization, we will have so many gifts, just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

作为文明人，我们会拥有如此之多的天赋，就在我面前的你们，每一个生命个体都拥有许多独特的天赋。

Barbarian is a historical word for people who weren't part of so-called civilized society.

野蛮人一个历史词汇，所指的那些不属于所谓文明社会的人。

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.

皮克特人苏格兰人被罗马人视为地球上最不文明的人，有一天，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。

Let us not resort to our baser instincts and handle this like civilized men.

我们不要诉诸于卑劣的本能，而要文明人那样处理这件事。

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，可别回来晚了。

With this duty which a man owes to his kind.

创造文明人对其同类的必履之责。

If you want the benefits of civilization, you have to behave in a civilized manner.

如果你们想享有文明社会的待遇，就必须做个文明人。

Ancient civilizations such as the Egyptians and the Greeks first divided the day into smaller parts based on a base 12 and base 60 system that we continue to use to this day.

古代文明，如埃及人人，首先根据 12 进位 60 进位的系统将一天分成更小的部分，我们一直沿用至今。

There is not time enough in a single lifetime to invent for oneself everything one needs to know in order to be a civilized human.

人生苦短，不足以自己创造成为一个文明人所需知道的一切知识。

Now, there is this noteworthy difference between savage and civilized; that while a sick, civilized man may be six months convalescing, generally speaking, a sick savage is almost half-well again in a day.

这就野蛮人与文明人之间的一个显著差别；一个文明人如果患病，可能需要六个月才能逐渐康复，而一般说来，一个野蛮人生了病，几乎一天之内病情就会好上一半。

It was just that Yankee stepmother who squalled and said I was a wild barbarian and decent people weren't safe around uncivilized Southerners" . " Well, you can't blame her.

就那个北方佬继母，她却大声嚷嚷，说我个蛮子，说文明人跟粗野的南方人在一起很不安全。" " 不过，你不能怪她。

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.

大多数欧洲人一样 他把世界上的人划分为 生活在被人为干预过的 文明社会中的人 那些生活在自然 蛮荒状态下的人。

When he's pulled forward and straightened up the trailer — as civilized people do before backing up with a trailer — he puts it into reverse.

他向前开车直到拖斗摆直，然后他所有即将带着拖斗倒车的文明人一样，挂上了倒车挡。

The Vikings then went through a stage of being seen by historians as rather civilised-more tradesmen and travellers than pillagers-in fact they became almost cuddly.

一度有考古学家认为维京人的文明程度相当高，在本地及外地经商的人比海盗多。

They were given land in Indian territory in what is now the state of Oklahoma. The government described these Indians as civilized.

他们在现在的俄克拉荷马州的印第安人的领土上获得了土地。政府称这些印第安人为" 文明人" 。

You know what I mean? That kind of things are resolved by people who've stopped pretending to be civilized people.

你明白我的意思吗？这种事情由那些不再假装文明人的人来解决的。

All across America — at family gatherings, in social settings and workplaces, on college campuses, and certainly on social media, Americans are losing the ability to conduct civil and productive dialogue with those who hold different political views.

整个美国——无论家庭聚会、社交场所工作场所、大学校园、还社交媒体上，美国人正在失去与持有不同政治观点的人进行文明富有成效的对话的能力。

As with many ancient civilisations, no one really knows the exact date when the city-state of Sparta was founded.

与许多古代文明一样，没有人真正知道斯巴达城邦建立的确切日期。

So just be a good person and take responsibility of your cigarette butts like you would with other trash.

所以做一个文明人，对你的烟头负责，就对待其他垃圾一样。