These books are about the history of Western civilization.

这些书谈的是西方文明史。

Ancient Greece is often called the origin of Western civilization.

古希腊常被称为西方文明的起源。

No one has had a greater influence on Western civilization than the ancient Greeks.

没有人比古希腊人对欧洲文明产生的影响更大。

However we seem to have lost these aspects of earlier human tradition in our fast-paced modern Western civilization.

然而，在快节奏的现代西方文明中，我们似乎已经失去了这些早期的人类传统方法。

What stands out about Western civilization is its early confrontation with traditional mythology, dating back to ancient Greece.

西方文明的显著特点在于其早期与传统神话的对抗，可追溯到古希腊。

Call it for what it is. This is a fight for Western civilization. They have declared war on us.

是什么就叫什么。这是为西方文明而战。他们已对我们宣战。

Beginning in the 14th century, Bubonic plague changed the course of Western civilization. A third of Europe's population perished.

从14世纪开始，黑死病改变了西方文明的进程。欧洲三分之一的人口死亡。

I believe it should be viewed the other way around: It actually reflects a distinct feature of Western civilization.

我认为应该从另一个角度来看：实际上，它反映了西方文明的独特特征。

Western civilization takes credit for the development of anthropology, which, as a matter of fact, was a relatively late science.

西方文明因人类学的发展而受到赞誉，实际上，人类学是一门相对较晚的科学。

Athens, the capital of Greece, is known as the birthplace of western civilization.

希腊首都雅典被誉为西方文明的诞生地。

But Russia's Orthodox Church leadership is closely connected to the Kremlin and both preach what they see as the decline of Western civilization.

然而，俄罗斯东正教领导层跟克里姆林宫联系密切，双方都在宣扬他们所谓的“西方文明之衰败”。

It is only in the study of man himself that the major social sciences have substituted the study of one local variation, that of Western civilization.

只是在研究人类本身时，主要社会科学才取代对一种地区性变化(例如西方文明)的研究。

But individualism is also often said to be the source of Western civilization's degeneracy — accused of leading to selfishness, shallow consumerism, the breakdown of society.

但利己主义也经常被认为是西方文明堕落的根源——被指责导致了自私自利、浅薄的消费主义和社会的崩溃。

Western civilization has existed for a few seconds.

西方文明已经存在了几秒钟。

On what does modern or Western civilization rest?

1. 现代或西方文明的基础是什么？

Treating Western civilization as a marriage between Christianity  and Greco-Roman mythology is a prevalent notion.

将西方文明视为基督教与希腊罗马神话的联姻是一种普遍的观念。

The only honest answer to this question is that it was Western civilization that did so.

对这个问题唯一诚实的回答是，是西方文明这样做的。

This isn't Western Civilization. This is Native.

这不是西方文明。这是原生的。

It is a testament to just how  much the Black Death affected the collective minds of Western civilization.

这证明了黑死病对西方文明集体思想的影响有多大。

The first sustained argument for this practice in western civilization.

西方文明中第一个持续支持这种做法的论据。