The two common phrases in modern Chinese, "layingfoundation" and "making sacrifice", come from the shocking custom of archaic times.
现代汉语中常用的“奠基”和“献身”两个词，来源于上古时期骇人听闻的习俗。
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After four years of negotiations, the historic Paris Agreement was finally adopted at the end of 2015, layingfoundation for the future global governance of climate change.
Europe is not a transition era as what people in the past said in Middle Ages, but the period of layingfoundation and forming tentatively of Europe and even western modern culture.