1. Professor Ronald Bracewell, a leading American radio astronomer, argued in Nature that such a superior civilization,
    美国一位重要的射电天文学家罗纳德.布雷斯韦尔教授在《自然》杂志上提出了这样的观点：

2. Civilization does not remian static, but changes constantly.
    文明不会停滞不动, 而会不断改变。

3. One cannot think of Africa without thinking of Egypt, the cradle of an ancient civilization, nor of Egypt without the Nile.
    想到非洲，人们不能不想到作为古代文明发祥地之一的埃及。同样，想到埃及，不能不想到尼罗河，

4. One author argues that beings from outer space have established a highly advanced civilization in the unexplored depths of the Atlantic inside the triangle.
    一名作者认为，外星人在三角区内尚未被考察的大西洋海底建立了高度发达的文明。

5. The conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.
    也就是存在于个人与渐渐闯入的文明这两者的冲突之中。

6. 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.
    只是在对人类自身的研究。主要的社会科学建立在本土变化，即西方文明上。