I really thought we were done with the mission to civilize.

我以为咱俩彻底放弃众生的使命。

Was Don Quixote de la Mancha done with his mission to civilize?

堂吉诃德有没有放弃众生的使命呢？

All this time I thought I'd had some civilizing effect.

我一直以为能他变得斯文点。

He said this because the elephant Babar leaves the forest and later returns to " civilize" his fellow animals.

他说因为大象巴巴离开森林，然后后来回来" " 他的同类动物。

They were not ready for self-government. So, there was nothing for us to do but to take them all. And to educate the Filipinos, to civilize them, and make Christians of them.

他们还没有做好自治的准备。所以，除掌控所有领土之外，其事情我们都做不。我们要育菲律宾人，他们，使他们成为基督徒。

Once a nation really believes it has the obligation to civilize the world, this is historically a sign that the nation is going to fall on some very hard times.

一旦一个国家坚信有责任去带领世界走向文明就注定要经历一段艰难的岁月。

But in spite of this great love he bore John Thornton, which seemed to bespeak the soft civilizing influence, the strain of the primitive, which the Northland had aroused in him, remained alive and active.

巴克对约翰·桑顿的深切的爱，是文明潜移默作用的深刻体现，然而这并不表明，他身上被北国唤醒的原始本性不复存在，相反，还是很活跃。

In the Beta-Minus geography room John learnt that, a savage reservation is a place which, owing to unfavourable climatic or geological conditions, or poverty of natural resources, has not been worth the expense of civilizing.

约翰在比塔减室的地理课学到这样的东西, 野蛮人保留地是由于气候或地理条件不利，或天然资源缺乏，不值得花费功夫去文明的地区。