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

你文明;没有比固定兵役更能使人民群众文明化方法了。

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

再政治，政治家总歌颂帝国伟大，宣扬文明野蛮人道德义务。

'Yet it reigned in Persia with the magi, it endowed India with wonderful traditions, it civilised Greece to the sounds of Orpheus's lyre'.

“然而它与贤士一起统治了波斯，它赋予了度美妙传统，它使希腊在奥菲斯七弦琴之声中文明化”。

However, this confirmed my first opinion, that a people who could so far civilise brute animals, must needs excel in wisdom all the nations of the world.

然而，这证实了我第一个观点，即一个能够到目前为止驯化野兽民族，必须在智慧超过世界所有国家。

They civilise their food by cooking it and they also civilised the food in a sense by cutting it into small pieces and making it very elegant and by banishing the brutality of knives to the kitchen.

他们通过烹饪来文明化食物， 从某种意义， 他们还通过将食物切成小块并使其变得非常优雅以及将刀具残酷性消除到厨房来文明化食物。