西方人

What we in the western world are about to learn is that there is no such thing as a Keynesian free lunch.

我 们西方人很快就会明白，根本就没有什么凯恩斯主义的免费午餐。

He really feels like a kindred spirit with the Westerners who lived during the time when a man was a man, and justice was served by the barrel of a gun.

他真的喜欢那些与他志趣相投的旧时代的西方人，那些人生活在一个真正男人的时代，因为枪杆子里出公正。

When Li Xiaoming drive the steam engine train discarded by Westerners, he feed the coal to train, single-handedly control the speed, and only know that move forwards and backwards. He has no other feeling. As where he came from and where he are going, he is not aware of this!

自李晓明驾驶着被西方人抛弃的蒸汽机火车以来，他一手给火车拼命地添煤，一手紧张地控制着行车的速度，一味地"前进"和"后退"，再没有其它感觉，至于从哪里来，到哪里去，他是不知道的！

That is, the shift will be bound to cause clashes between major powers. Thucydides, in his book The Peloponnesian War , observed that the war was inevitable because of "the growth of the power of Athens and the alarm which this inspired in Lacedaemon".

然而，自从伟大的古希腊历史学家修昔底德在《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》一书中提出，使得伯罗奔尼撒战争不可避免的原因是因为"雅典权力的增强以及由此而引起的斯巴达的恐惧"以来，权力转移必然是引起大国冲突已经成为了西方人的思维定式，这一点却是值得我们高度重视和认真对待的。

This largesse is evidence of western generosity .

这些大手笔显示了西方人的慷慨。

Western thinking is linear, moving form goals to strategy to tactics, or from overview to details.

西方人的思维是线性的，从目标到战略再到战术，或者从概观到细节。

The people living in the west mostly trust in God.

西方人都信奉上帝。

In the West, people intend to be more open about expressing themselves.When they are angry or lose patience with someone, they will take action or even argue.

西方人很善于表达自己，一旦他们对某人生气或是没了耐性，就会表现出来，甚至争论一番也说不定。

China often moved at a pace that seemed maddeningly slow to Westerners, but it was not impervious to change.

在西方人看来，中国经常以难以忍受的缓慢速度前进，但是它并不是完全抗拒改革的。

I never think that I'm Madonna. She is from west, I am a Chinese.

我从来不觉得自己是什么麦当娜，她是西方人，我们是中国人，我们心底里是传统的。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。