Born in a civilised family, Anne was delicately nurtured.

安妮出生在一个文明家庭，受到精心呵护。

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

但是我总觉得事事要邀获别人批准，或许是文明人类最根深蒂固的一种天性。

For once, we can eat when civilised people eat, so don't be late back.

我们终于在文明人吃饭的时间吃饭了，可别回来晚了。

Once a year the civilised surroundings of a large hotel ballroom provide a simulacrum of that competition.

一年一，大舞厅的文雅环境提供了竞争的模拟画面。

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！和文明生活中的任何观察一样真实。

The consumer filth and monoculture of the “civilised” world had depressed him ever since the writing of “Tristes Tropiques”.

消时代的单一文化令他心生厌倦，早在写作《忧郁的热带》之时，他就对“文明”社会表现出了失望感。

Now, if you can all put your swords away, perhaps we can finish our dinner in a civilised manner.

如果你们起唇枪舌剑，或许我们可以好好吃完晚饭。

Let's keep things civilised, shall we, ladies?

文明点 女士们？

I'd make him ride in that car like a civilised man or stay at home.

我会让他像个文明人一样坐那辆车， 或者呆在家里。

Perhaps they could sit down and discuss things in a civilised fashion.

【fashion】也许他们可以坐下来心平气和地商量事情。

“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的局限，来改变世界。

An eye for an eye is no way to run a civilised justice system.

【eye】文明的司法系统不允许以眼还眼、以牙还牙的行为。

" Heathens and savage tribes hold that doctrine, but Christians and civilised nations disown it" .

“异教徒和野蛮部落持有该教义，但基督教徒和文明国家否认它”。

In 48 BC Julius Caesar was the master of Rome,   and of much of the civilised world.

公元前 48 年，朱利叶斯·凯撒 (Julius Caesar) 是罗马和大部分文明世界的主人。

What did not change was her regard for her colleagues, conservative or not, in the wonderfully civilised family that was the court.

没有改变的是，在一个非常文明的法院家庭里，她对她的同事们的尊重，不管他们是保守的还是不保守的。

It is a fraught balance—neither extreme instability nor excessive stasis, all while staying within the bounds of civilised discourse.

这是一种紧张的平衡——既不极端不稳定， 也不过停滞，同时还要保持在文明话语的范围内。

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的教养容不得你这样的观念以外，我不想再说别的话了。

You talk of civilising; there's no such way of civilising the masses of the people as by fixed military service.

你说的是文明;没有比固定兵役更使人民群众文明化的方法了。

From classical and mediaeval thought we have borrowed that concept of the rule of law which marks out a civilised society from barbarism.

我们从古典时代和中世纪的思想中借鉴了法治概念，它将文明社会与野蛮社会区分开来。

Again with politics, statesmen are always praising the greatness of Empire, and preaching the moral duty of civilising the savage.

再说政治，政治家总是歌颂帝国的伟大，宣扬文明野蛮人的道德义务。