中东地区

Said's great writings include Orientalism (1978) in which he explained a pattern of western misinterpretation of the East, particularly the Middle East.

说的伟大著作包括东方（ 1978 ），他在解释西方模式的误解东方，尤其是中东地区。

Economic growth in China, India and the Middle East continues to be outstandingly strong.

中国、印度和中东地区的经济增长仍异常强劲。

Mr Obama is a paid-up subscriber to the goal of reducing US dependence on the Middle East for its energy needs.

奥巴马注定要削减美国在能源需求上对中东地区的依赖程度。

This provocative thesis may overstate Israel's heft in Washington and understate its fear of Iran's nuclear ambitions. But it is hard to grumble with Mr Parsi's conclusion that detente between America and Iran, of the sort that might have come about in 2003, would in fact make both Israel and the Middle East as a whole very much safer.

这一观点具有很大的争议性，它可能夸大了以色列对于华盛顿的重要性，也低估了以色列对伊朗核问题的忧惧程度，但既然Parsi在书的结尾处指出，美国与伊朗之间的关系如果出现2003年那次可能出现的缓和，事实上对以色列乃至整个中东地区的安全都十分有利，那我们又何苦对他的这一论点斤斤计较呢？！

The region will not turn away from Islam but remain piously conservative, probably misogynistic too.

中东地区将来不会排斥伊斯兰教，但是依然虔诚保守，可能还会歧视女性。

Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East.

埃及是非洲人口最多的国家和中东地区之一。

But, being over 11,000 years old, they predate the domestication of cereals in the Middle East by a millennium.

但几乎都有1.1万年的历史了，这比人类在中东地区开始耕种谷物要早1千年的时间。

Ms. Rice said that since the first Forum for the Future a year ago in Rabat, there has been a "tremendous expansion of liberty" in the broader Middle East region, underscored by two sets of democratic elections in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

赖斯说，自从一年前未来论坛首次在拉巴特举行以来，大中东地区的自由有了极大的扩展，伊拉克和阿富汗进行的民主选举就突出说明了这一点。

Rice said that since the first Forum for the Future a year ago in Rabat, there has been a "tremendous expansion of liberty" in the broader Middle East region, underscored by two sets of democratic elections in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

赖斯说，自从一年前未来论坛首次在拉巴特举行以来，大中东地区的自由有了极大的扩展，伊拉克和阿富汗进行的民主选举就突出说明了这一点。

Ramadan is the most important holiday in the Middle East.

斋月是中东地区最重要的节日。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。