一中英惯用例句:
  • 用一句有中国特色的话说就是：这个年轻的国家，实实在在地取得了物质文明和精神文明建设的双丰收。
    Or, to borrow a set phrase from China, this young country has verily attained a high degree of civilisation in both material and non-material senses.
  • 因为有这一方面的努力，加上丰富的历代断代史和方志，中国在5000年文化的演变过程中，未曾有过一个“黑暗时代”。
    Through such endeavours, together with the copious dynastic histories and district records, China has had no "dark ages" in the evolution of its 5000-year old civilisation.
  • 文化的影响，尤其是通过电视、电影和一个技术上较先进的文明的一些无形的力量——软体的力量，与一个国家在国际事务上所能发挥的硬体力量是同样重要的。”
    Soft power, the influence of culture, especially through television, films and the intangibles of a more technically-advanced civilisation, becomes as important as hard power in international affairs.
  • 到那个时候，道德势必完全摧毁，一切生产力量因此势必完全消失，国家的财富、文化和权力也将不复存在，除此以外，还有什么别的后果可期望呢.
    What else than the total destruction of all morality, and with it of all productive forces,and therefore of all the wealth, civilisation, and power of the nation?
  • 尤其那些不识“鬼”为何物的社会缔造者，他们就凭着一股冲劲和执着感情，相信“科学必战胜迷信”的信念，推动社会进步，造就今日人类社会文明。
    But it is the latter, who, with great drive and determination, and a conviction that "science will prevail over superstitions", who have created the civilisation we have today.
  • 软体的力量——文化的影响，尤其是通过电视、电影和一个技术上较先进的文明的一些无形的力量，与在国际事务上硬体的力量是同样重要的。”
    Soft power, the influence of culture, especially through television, films and the intangibles of a more technically- advanced civilisation, becomes as important as hard power in international affairs. "
  • 　一切现代国家的伟大政治家，儿乎没有一个例外，都认识到工业对于国家财富、文化和力量的重大意义，有加以保护的必要。
    The great statesmen of all modern nations, almost without exception, have comprehended the great influence of manufactures and manufactories on the wealth, civilisation, and power of nations, and the necessity of protecting them.
  • 但是，只有当一个农业国在文化上和政治上已经达到了那样的发展阶段，已经有必要建成一个工业国时，这方面的损失才是绝对的损失。
    This will, however, be a positive loss only in case the agricultural nation has already reached that stage of civilisation and political development which is necessary for the establishment of a manufacturing power.
  • 在现代文明已经发展的国家里,形成了一个新的小资产阶级，它摇摆于无产阶级和资产阶级之间，并且作为资产阶级社会的补充部分不断地重新组成。
    In countries where modern civilisation has become fully developed, a new class of petty bourgeois has been formed, fluctuating between proletariat and bourgeoisie and ever renewing itself as a supplementary part of bourgeois society.
  • 到了十九世纪，西方人对中国的看法有很大的改变，他们开始看到中国的弱点，以及中国文明的其他较缺少启发性的一面，那是八国联军时期。
    The Western perception of China changed drastically in the 19th century. They began to see its weaknesses and the less edifying aspects of its civilisation, after they had entrenched themselves there through military coercion.
  • 瓦伦丁很快就被人找到并重返文明社会，而他的兄弟奥森生活在森林中。奥森被一头熊逮回熊窝给幼熊充当食物。
    One boy, Valentine, is quickly rescued and returned to civilisation; while Orson, his brother, remains behind in the woods, where he is snatched by a bear and taken back to her lair to be fed to her cubs.
  • 它与政治经济学，即以研究如何使某一指定国家(在世界当前形势下)凭农工商业取得富强、文化和力量的那种科学是对立的。
    in opposition to political economy, or that science which limits its teaching to the inquiry how a given nation can obtain (under the existing conditions of the world) prosperity, civilisation, and power, by means of agriculture, industry, and commerce.
  • 　对一切国家、对整个世界进行教化，是全人类应该共向担当的任务，从那些不变的自然法则来看，这一点是显然的，文明国家彼不可抗拒的势力所推动，不得不把它们的生产力扩大或移转到文化比较落后的国家。
    That the civilisation of all nations, the culture of the whole globe, forms a task imposed on the whole human race, is evident from those unalterable laws of nature by which civilised nations are driven on with irresistible power to extend or transfer their powers of production to less cultivated countries.
  • 如果以任何国家的情况来说，在工业各部门都获得了发展的一个工业力量，是在文化上、物质繁荣上、政治力量上进一步发展的基本条件(这一点我们认为在历史上已组获得了证明)；如果就目前世界形势来说，世界上已经有了一个国家处于强有力地位，并且早已在它自己领域以内有着周密的保护，处于这样的形势，在自由竞争下一个一无保护的国家要想成为一个新兴的工业国已经没有可能；如果这一点是确实的话(我们认为这一点的确切无疑是可以证明的)，那么上述的流行学派的论点又怎能站得住脚呢？
    If, therefore, a manufacturing power developed in all its branches forms a fundamental condition of all higher advances in civilisation, material prosperity, and political power in every nation (a fact which, we think, we have proved from history); if it be true (as we believe we can prove) that in the present conditions of the world a new unprotected manufacturing power cannot possibly be raised up under free competition with a power which has long since grown in strength and is protected on its own territory;
  • 　如果一个国家人口的增长超过了食料生产的增长趋势，如果资本的积累最后达到了这样程度，以致不能再找到投资出路，如果机器生产造成了大批工人失业，使商品有了巨额过剩——如果发生了这样的情况，这只是说明，造化注定，不允许任何一个国家单独享有工业、文化、财富和权力，或者是说，地球上大部分宜于耕种的地方只应当成为野兽的窟穴，人类的绝大部分应当永久陷于野蛮、无知和贫因状态。
    If in a nation the population increases more than the production of the means of subsistence, if capital accumulates at length to such an extent as no longer to find investment, if machinery throws a number of operatives out of work and manufactured goods accumulate to a large excess, this merely proves, that nature will not allow industry, civilisation, wealth,and power to fall exclusively to the lot of a single nation, or that a large portion of the globe suitable for cultivation should be merely inhabited by wild animals, and that the largest portion of the human race should remain sunk in savagery, ignorance, and poverty.
  • 有些国家在文化上同那占优势的国家比起来还差得很远，但是那个国家决没有从上帝手里取得垄断工业的永久权利，不过在时间上它比别的国家占先了一步而已。保护制度是使落后国家在文化上取得与那个优势国家同等地位的唯一方法。从这一点看起来，保护贸易制度可以认为是促进各国实现最后联合，也就是促进真正自由贸易的最有效方法，从这个观点来看时，国家经济学似乎是这样一种科学，它正确地了解各国的当前利益和特有环境，它所教导的是怎样使各个国家上升到上述那样的工业发展阶段，怎样使它同其他同样发展的国家结成联盟，从而使实行自由贸易成为可能，并从中获得利益。
    The system of protection, inasmuch as it forms the only means of placing those nations which are far behind in civilisation on equal terms with the one predominating nation (which, however, never received at the hands of Nature a perpetual right to a monopoly of manufacture, but which merely gained an advance over others in point of time), the system of protection regarded from this point of view appears to be the most efficient means of furthering the final union of nations,and hence also of promoting true freedom of trade. And national economy appears from this point of view to be that science which,correctly appreciating the existing interests and the individual circumstances of nations, teaches how every separate nation can be raised to that stage of industrial development in which union with other nations equally well developed, and consequently freedom of trade, can become possible and useful to it.
  • 一直以来，我们都说香港是一个具有高度文明的和经济蓬勃发展的城市。
    All along, we have claimed that Hong Kong is a highly civilised and prosperous city.
  • 联合的行动，至少是各文明国家的联合的行动，是无产阶级获得解放的首要条件之一。
    United action, of the leading civilised countries at least, is one of the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.
  • 基本上，艺术界本身需要负起这个责任，他们需要赢取公众的尊敬，证明艺术是一个文明社会不可或缺的重要部分。
    The responsibility rests primarily with the arts fraternity who must earn the public respect by demonstrating their worth as an indispensable component of a civilised society.
  • 但更重要的是，经常出国旅游的新加坡人越来越多。他们目睹了在一个文雅的社会里，人们可以过着更愉快和优雅的生活。
    But more importantly, as an increasing number of Singaporeans nowadays travel abroad regularly, they can see for themselves how much more pleasant and civilised life can be in a more cultivated community.
  • 它们被新的工业排挤掉了，新的工业的建立已经成为一切文明民族的生命攸关的问题；这些工业所加工的，已经不是本地的原料，而是来自极其遥远的地区的原料；
    They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones;
  • 要维系一个优雅的社会，需要的是纪律和秩序。实行严格法治，对人的行为进行调整和规范，并由此培养出人们讲秩序，守纪律的习惯无疑是最有效的途径。
    It is true that discipline and order are essential to a gracious society, and strict rules are needed to ensure that people behave well. Yet the best guarantee for civilised conduct lies rather in good habits of the population.
  • 现在已经可以有把握地预言，再过几十年以后，由于交通工具的进一步改善，世界上的文明国家通过物质和文化方面的交流而联合在一起的密切程度，将不亚于一个世纪以前英国各郡的联合，或者还比它们更为密切些。
    It may be already foreseen with certainty, that after a lapse of a few decades the civilised nations of the earth will, by the perfection of the means of conveyance, be united as respects both material and mental interchange in as close a manner as (or even closer than) that in which a century ago the various counties of England were connected.
  • 力争2007年北京市文明社区建设达到全国一流水平。
    By 2007, the civility of the Beijing residents should be raised to a point where the city can rank among the very best in the country in terms of civility.
  • 彬格莱小姐冷淡而有礼貌地说:“你放心好啦，老太太，班纳特小姐待在我们这儿，我们一定尽心尽意地照顾她。”
    "You may depend upon it, Madam," said Miss Bingley, with cold civility, "that Miss Bennet shall receive every possible attention while she remains with us."
  • “是的，我回来了，卡德鲁斯邻居，我正准备着想使你高兴一下呢。”唐太斯回答道，答话虽彬彬有礼，却仍掩饰不住他内心的冷淡。
    "Yes, as you see, neighbor Caderousse; and ready to be agreeable to you in any and every way," replied Dantès, but ill-concealing his coldness under this cloak of civility.
  • 一般地说来，重心是在家庭的教养(跟西洋人选择“优良的家庭”“good　home”里的女人意义一样)，这种教养包括节俭、勤劳、举止温雅、和有礼貌这些良好的旧传统。
    In general, the emphasis is upon family breeding (in the same sense that a Westerner would choose a girl from a " good home"), representing the fine old traditions of thrift, hard work, good manners and civility.
  • 除此之外还注意到一些穿戴比较新潮、比较另类的青年人常常不守公德，吐痰、扔纸、抢先等现象都有看到，稍损名闻全球的岛国文明形象。
    Besides, I also noticed youths who are dressed more fashionably, or who sport alternative styles, pay scant regard to public civility by spitting, littering and cutting queues. They tarnish the world-renowned image of Singapore as a civilized place.
  • 有礼貌不能制止核战争，也不能为无家可归者提供栖身之所，但它的确能改变一个社会群体的面貌，犹如举重定能改变一个人的体形一样。
    Civility doesn't stop nuclear holocaust and doesn't put a roof over the head of the homeless. But it makes a difference in the shape of a community, as surely as lifting weights can make a difference in the shape of a human torso.
  • 中国文化是世界上最古老的文化之一。
    Chinese civilization is one of the oldest in the world.
  • 普遍认为中国文化是世界上最古老的文化之一。
    It is generally accepted that the Chinese civilization is one of the oldest in the world.
  • 中国是文明的发源地之一。
    the birthplace of civilization.