Western Civilization

常见例句

And that's no small humiliation for a country that gave the world English and saved Western civilization in the Battle of Britain in 1940.
作为一个为世界贡献了英语，以及在1940年的战役中拯救了西方文明的国家来说，这是一个不小的耻辱。
Anything important that happened in ancient Rome happened here — it was once the most important piece of real estate in Western civilization.
古罗马任何重大的事件都在此发生，它曾经是西方文明中最重要的一块不动产。
In the popular imagination, Socrates may be the first deep thinker in Western civilization, but in Mr. Johnson's view he was also an anti-intellectual.
人们普遍认为，苏格拉底是西方文明中第一个深刻的思想家，但约翰逊把其看成是一个反知识分子的人。

"The moral effects around the planet, the increase in morale of the radical jihadists and the damage to western civilization will be incalculable.
In the last two centuries, both these most characteristic elements of Western civilization have in fact become increasingly under heavy attack.
近两个世纪以来,西方文明这些,最具代表性的因素实际上,正遭到越来越多的抨击
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There are all kinds of things that it might be very useful ; for you to know as an inhabitant of Western civilization; and the New Testament,you might find out, would rank kind of down on the list of those kinds of things.
作为西方文明的一分子,有很多有用的东西可以学;,而新约，你会发现，与这些东西相比，排名比较靠后。
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Western civilization s signature achievement was not democracy but the idea that laws prevail over lawgivers.
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