什么是文明？最好有英文解释。

文明包含两层含义：一是人类创造力和智慧的结晶；二是源于智力发展的启蒙和高品位。即1)The total product of human creativity and intellect 2)Enlightenment and excellent taste resulting from intellectual development

根据前一层含义，文明的同义词和反义词分别为：culture, sophistication; barbarism, primitiveness, wildness

根据后一层含义，文明的同义词和反义词分别为：society; barbarism, barbarity

关于文明的名人名言Quotes:

"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades." - Thomas B. Aldrich

"Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages." - Hervey Allen

"The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night." - Jean Baudrillard

"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs." - Eric Berne

"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion." - Thomas Carlyle

"People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater." - Kenneth, Lord Clark