the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization
a particular society at a particular time and place;
"early Mayan civilization"
a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations);
"the people slowly progressed from barbarism to civilization"
the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste;
"a man of intellectual refinement" "he is remembered for his generosity and civilization"
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But the concept of civilisation itself is not.但是，文明的概念本身并不是。
One can also put this in terms of technology, rather than civilisation.有人可能也给这种事以技术学的而不是文明的术语。
The gaunt and grave civilisation of the thirteenth century was presented with that of the nineteenth, grinning, prosperous, and well armed.十三世纪的贫乏而朴素的文化就和那微笑的，昌盛的而又武装得很好的十九世纪的文明呈现在一起了。
