Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs in civilized society.

准时是文明社会中进行一切公共事务时必须养成的习惯。

Mythology functions as an ideological driving force within every civilized society.

神话在每个文明社会中都扮演着一种意识形态的推动力。

Barbarian is a historical word for people who weren't part of so-called civilized society.

野蛮人是一个历史词汇，所指的是那些不属于所谓文明社会的人。

Such prejudices strike right at the heart of any notions of a civilized society.

【strike】这些偏见直接危害到了文明社会理念的核心部分。

The authority of fortune, however, is very great, even in an opulent and civilized society.

然而，即使在富裕文明的社会中， 财富的权威也是非常大的。

The second is the invention of money, which binds together all the relations between civilized societies.

第二是货币的发明， 它把文明社会之间的一切关系联系在一起。

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

无论它们在文明社会中的用途如何，镜子对于所有暴力和英勇行动都是必不可少的。

And the way in which people interact with strangers suggest that it's not a civilized society yet.

人们与陌生人互动的方式表明这还不是一个文明社会。

Society—civilized society, at least—is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.

社会——至少是文明社会——永远不会愿意相信任何有损那些既富有又迷人的人的事情。

These are the three great, original, and constituent, orders of every civilized society, from whose revenue that of every other order is ultimately derived.

这是每个文明社会的三个伟大的、原始的和构成性的秩序，所有其他秩序的收入最终都来自它们的收入。

In an opulent and civilized society, a man may possess a much greater fortune, and yet not be able to command a dozen of people.

在一个富裕文明的社会里，一个人可能拥有更大的财富，却无法号召一打人。

One of the things about most civilized society in the past has been for the men to be able to take care of their families, and that included their wives and their children.

过去最文明的社会中的一点就是男人能够照顾他们的家庭，包括他们的妻子和孩子。

The same thing may be said of the gross ignorance and stupidity which, in a civilized society, seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of all the inferior ranks of people.

同样的事情也适用于严重的无知和愚蠢，在文明社会中，这似乎常常使所有下层人民的理解力变得麻木。

In civilized society he stands at all times in need of the co-operation and assistance of great multitudes, while his whole life is scarce sufficient to gain the friendship of a few persons.

在文明社会中， 他总是需要广大群众的合作和帮助， 而他的一生却不足以获得少数人的友谊。

Invention is kept alive, and the mind is not suffered to fall into that drowsy stupidity, which, in a civilized society, seems to benumb the understanding of almost all the inferior ranks of people.

发明保持活力，思想不会陷入那种昏昏欲睡的愚蠢状态，在文明社会中，这种愚蠢似乎麻木了几乎所有下层人民的理解力。

But in every improved and civilized society, this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it.

但在每一个进步的文明社会中，这是劳动穷人，即人民的大部分，必然陷入的状态，除非政府采取一些努力来阻止它。