mankind

• The principal institutions of mankind have been developed from a few primary germs of thought .
  人类的主要制度是从少数原始思想的幼苗中发展出来的。
• I resolve to free mankind from the insupportable burden of the existence of those lurking ruffians .
  我决心要为民除害，把这群偷鸡摸狗的流氓铲除掉。
• But zeus, the chief of the olympian gods, gave law to mankind as his greatest present .
  而奥林匹斯山众神之首宙斯把法律作为他最伟大的礼物赐予了人类。
• They had no knowledge of the past of mankind at all; at best they had a few shrewd guesses .
  他们简直对于人类的以往毫无所知，最多不过有些锐利的猜测。
• The mission of these great minds is to guide mankind over the sea of error to the heaven of truth .
  这些伟人的使命是引导人类渡过错误的大海，到达真理的天堂。
• Unaccustomed wonder filled his mind at the reflection of the different lots of the brethren of mankind .
  想到人类弟兄不同的命运，他心里充满了一种非常奇怪的感觉。
• Mankind might some night be innocently sleeping when these quiet objects were raging loud .
  也许有一天夜里人类会无知无识地熟睡了，而这些平静的物象竞汹涌咆哮起来。
• The classical poets pictured the tribes of mankind dwelling in grooves, in caves and in forests .
  古典时代的诗人笔下所描写的人类部落居住在树丛中，洞穴里和森林中。
• It contains the oldest as well as the most circumstantial account now existing of the progress of mankind .
  其中关于人类进步过程的记载是现存材料中最古老、最详细的。
• Mankind commenced in a state of extreme rudeness from which they had risen by slow and successive steps .
  人类是从极端原始的状况下迈步，而后一步接着一步慢慢上升的。