来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第1集 第1集》

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  the West has created institutions of government
  但西方建立的政府机构与设立的法律制度
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  and law that provide unprecedented freedom for its people.
  都给与其治下的公民史无前例的自由
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  It has also invented a body of natural scientific knowledge
  再则 西方积累的自然科学知识
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  and technological achievement that together
  和技术成就结合在一起
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  make possible a level of health
  使医疗和物质领域得以繁荣
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  and material prosperity undreamed of in earlier times,
  其所达之处非但是人类早期不敢妄想的
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  and unknown outside the West and those places
  就连那些深受西方世界影响的地区
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  that have been influenced by the West.
  也是难以企及的
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  I think the Nobel Prize laureate,
  生于特立尼达的印度后裔
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  V.S. Naipaul, a man born in trinidad,
  诺贝尔奖获得者 V.S. 奈保尔
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  of Indian parents, was right,
  在谈到现代世界时说得很好
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  when he spoke of the modern world as our
  他说当前的普世文明