Man has gradually emerged from barbarism into civilization over the long history. 在悠久的历史长河中人类逐渐脱离野蛮状态而进入文明。
A lapse into barbarism. 倒退到野蛮状态
Beauty knows to say,“ Enough,” barbarism clamours for still more. 美”懂得说“足够”,“野蛮”却叫嚷着“多多益善”。
barbarism
[ noun ] a brutal barbarous savage act <noun.act>
Barbarism \Bar"ba*rism\ (b[aum]r"b[.a]*r[i^]z'm), n. [L. barbarismus, Gr. barbarismo`s; cf. F. barbarisme.] 1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. --Prescott.
2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. --Milton.
3. An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See {Solecism}.
The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. --G. Campbell.
At least 900 American men, women and children are trapped in Iraq and Kuwait, the State Department said today as it again accused Saddam Hussein's government of barbarism.
"It is a story of barbarism in its most crude and evil form, the rape of Kuwait," Baker said.
Bush, speaking at a Republican rally in Mashpee, Mass., said the Iraqi leader's forces "have committed outrageous acts of barbarism." And he said American hostages were being "held in direct contravention of international law.
At least I was slightly more hip than the dance critics. One wrote that "Boxiana" was Ms. Ragsdale's way of presenting boxing as a form of barbarism that should have been outlawed years ago.
"This kind of barbarism, a premeditated, terrorist attack is thanks to the American presence," he said.
It appears to me to be an act of barbarism without precedent." Zeron Medina protested the dropping of the episodes in letters to Televisa's president, Miguel Aleman Velasco, and Social Security Institute director Ricardo Garcia Sainz.
No other developed country countenances such barbarism. By insisting on a honest presentation of the Clinton plan as a public sector solution to this acute social problem, the CBO has performed a valuable public service.