文明

I hope the ancient Maya forgive Brian D'Amato for making their wonderful civilization seem so lackluster.

我希望古代玛雅原谅布赖恩达马托使他们美好的文明似乎如此平淡。

Even modern chemicals and techniques have failed to generate significant food from Amazonian soil in a sustainable way .

这个传说，是有关亚马逊这片土地上，曾经隐藏著一个足以跟印加古国相提并论的古代文明城市。

Even in the ancient time some countries had provisions and cases concerning the law of punitive damages, which were not same as the law of punitive damages in modern time, but were similar to amercement on violating administrative law or fine on violating criminal law. The modern concept of punitive damages was formed in tort law of America.

早在古代的西方和东方文明古国就出现了多倍赔偿的规定和案例，但这些制度不同于现代的惩罚性赔偿制度，而类似于现代行政法中的罚款或刑罚中罚金刑，真正现代意义的惩罚性赔偿制度的理念是在美国侵权法中形成的。

China has always been a disciplined and cultured nation, and if it seemed to old China hands that it was not, it is likely that it was the disturbing influence of western materialism and amorality that corrupted the personality of the Chinese who were in contact with it, and who thus became, in essence, its victims.

中国一直是一个守纪律有文明的国家，如果对中国通来说，中国看起来似乎不是那样，有可能是由于受西方实用主义和非道德的影响，这种影响腐蚀了和它接触的中国人的品格，这样就会形成这种看法，实质上，这些中国人也是受害者。

As a vessel the amphora acts both as an elegant container and a symbol of classical/ancient civilization.

作为一件容器，双耳瓶既是一个精美的瓶子，又是古代文明的象征。

Since reform and opening in China, with the rapid development of the rural economy, environmental pollution problems in rural areas have become increasingly serious. It has seriously affected the realization of new socialist countryside featured with "the production development, the life ampleness, the local custom civilization, the village neatness, and the management democracy" and hampered the coordinative development of economy, society and environment in rural areas even the entire country.

改革开放以来，随着中国农村经济的快速发展，农村环境问题也日益突出，严重影响了社会主义新农村建设的"生产发展、生活宽裕、乡风文明、村容整洁、管理民主"目标和要求的实现，阻碍了农村乃至全国经济、社会和环境的协调发展。

For cultural references to draw upon for an opening ceremony China does have a bit of an advantage.

当咱们欧洲人还住山洞的时候，中国人已经比我们早几千年过上了精致文明的日子。

Therefore, in the West, a profound traditional culture, not the root of Marxism-Leninism, Marxism-Leninism is only an expression of opposition to the early consequences of industrial civilization extreme emotions.

因此，在西方深厚的传统文化中马列主义没有根，马列主义表达的只是一种反对早期工业文明带来的后果的极端情绪。

That would be anarchy, and it would have collapsed as soon as civilization began 30,000 years ago.

这会引起混乱，而且可能在30，000年前文明开始之时就崩溃。

Two days later, I announced one of the most important environmental accomplishments of my entire eight years in office, the establishment of the 1.7 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in the remote and beautiful red rock area of southern Utah, which contains fossils of dinosaurs and the remains of the ancient Anasazi Indian civilization.

两天后，我宣布了总共任职八年中最重要的环保成就之一：在犹他州南部遥远而又漂亮的红色岩石地区建立170万英亩的大阶梯-埃斯卡兰蒂国家名胜古迹区，它包括恐龙化石和古代阿纳萨基印第安文明的遗迹。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷