西方人

India is the secret place in most Europe people's eye.

在西方人的心目中，印度是一片神秘的土地。

It's difficult to overstate the role of 'Dashan' in personifying 'the Westerner' for a generation of Chinese.

对一代中国人来说，大山就是&西方人&的具体化身，他在这方面的作用不可低估。

Western impressions of China are formed by pilgrimages of the masses to the power centers of Beijing.

西方人倾向于从宏观角度来看中国，关注于中国巨大的规模及其对西方的意义。

IT HAS become a tedious tradition for Westerners dealing with China to garnish their speeches with wisdom from the Chinese classics. Barack Obama, addressing Chinese and American leaders in July, used not just a banal quotation from Mencius, a Confucian sage, but a punchier one from Yao Ming, a Chinese basketball player:"No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another."

西方人在中国面前，喜欢引用中国传统智慧，这个传统越来越单调乏味。7月，奥巴马在出席中美领导人讲演时，不仅陈旧地引用了一个儒家圣人孟子，而且引用了很有实力的中国篮球运动员姚明：无论你是新人还是旧友，都需要时间以彼此适应。

Westerners are rediscovering the social importance of food.

西方人正在重新认识饮食的社会意义。

When the global economic crisis hit businesses, his company downsized and he was retrenched.

身为一名西方人，他要适应的是一家以中文为主导的公司，然而他却凭着积极和严谨的工作态度让自己成为部门里的楷模。

M:But I'm sorry to say that slurping is considered bad manners in Western etiquette.

C：听说过西方人喝汤不能有声音。这汤也太烫了。我吹吹再吃。

M:But Im sorry to say that slurping is considered bad manners in Western etiquette.

C：听说过西方人喝汤不能有声音。这汤也太烫了。我吹吹再吃。

MANY sympathetic Westerners view Chinese society along the lines of what they saw in the waning days of the Soviet Union: a repressive government backed by old hard-liners losing its grip to a new generation of well-educated, liberal-leaning sophisticates.

很多富有同情心的西方人视中国社会为当年的苏联：一个由老派人士执掌的压抑的政府，渐渐对富有良好教育的、思想开放且世故的一代新人失去了控制。

Hard work and stashing one's money under the mattress, preferably in a mix of high and low-denomination bills, is considered the road to wealth in the west these days.

如今的西方人认为，努力工作并把钱（最好大、小面额的钞票兼而有之）藏在床垫下才是致富之道。

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。