| 1. | Savagery was the formative period of the human race .
蒙昧阶段是人类的形成阶段。 |
| 2. | The causes of earthquakes are still hidden in obscurity .
地震的原因仍然隐蔽在蒙昧之中。 |
| 3. | The uninformed american public has developed a vested interest in their condemnation of mary .
蒙昧的美国公民把对玛丽的谴责发展成为一种既得利益。 |
| 4. | They had a definite beginning far back in savagery, and a logical progress, but can have no final consummation .
它们在遥远的蒙昧阶段都曾有一个明确的起点，它们都有合乎逻辑的发展，但是它们不可能有最后的终结。 |
| 5. | It must be remembered, in extenuation of this primitive young woman, that she held these opinions in an age of general darkness .
我们必须为这些幼稚无知的姑娘开脱一下，她是在一个普遍蒙昧的时代就持有这些看法了。 |
| 6. | It was not less difficult than the above mentioned to organize the simplest form of society out of such savage and intractable materials .
要把这样一些蒙昧初开、野犷难驯的材料组织起来，形成最简单的一种社会，其困难的程度也不在上述困难之下。 |
| 7. | Some of the excrescences of modern civilization, such as mormonism, are seen to be relics of the old savagism not yet eradicated from the human brain .
近代文明中的某些赘疣，如摩门教之类，不过是古老的蒙昧文化留在人们的脑海中尚未被清除的残余而已。 |
| 8. | The birth of written languages marks the dawn of human civilization
文字的诞生，是人类由蒙昧步入文明的标志。 |
| 9. | Oasis agriculture is indicative of moving from barbarism towards civilization of the oasis areas
绿洲农业是绿洲地区由蒙昧走向文明的标志。 |
| 10. | One of the greatest joys know to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge
人类已知的最大乐趣之一是投身蒙昧之境去寻求知识。 |
