He is personally responsible for the reforms, the opening up of Russia to a considerable extent to western European ideas.

他负起了改革的责任,即俄国对于西欧思想,如此大程度的开放

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So, he remained very Russian, but it was the importation of more western ways of looking at things that were very important.

因此他还是一个很正宗的俄国人,但鼓励引进更西欧文明式的思考方式,这对于落后的俄国来说还是非常重要的

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Is it really Western or is it Eastern European or even with some Asian influences?

它是来自西欧的,还是东欧的,甚至有来自亚洲的影响吗

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In the 1830s 600,000 immigrants came to the United States, almost entirely from Western Europe; in the 1840s alone 1.5 million; and in the 1850s,almost 3 million more.

十九世纪三十年代,约有六十万人移居美国,几乎全部来自西欧,仅在四十年代,就有一百五十万移民,而在五十年代,又多了三百万

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But this is also true of all of Western Europe, which has to do pretty much with the abolition of farmers and I just don't think it's right for me to pass without mentioning the significance.

西欧的情况亦如此,这与农奴制的废除有很大关系,我个人觉得如果不提一下其重要性,那是我的失职

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Despite all of the--Mitterrand's plans for decentralization, and the creation of regional councils, basically France remains the most centralized state in Western Europe, and the role of Paris in French life does not have an equivalent in other European countries.

尽管密特朗计划在法国实施,去中央集权化并创立地方议会,法国基本上还是西欧,中央集权化程度最高的国家,巴黎在法国的地位是欧洲其它国家的城市,所不能比拟的

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He learned Dutch-- and Dutch is a very difficult language-- in 1696, while the Turkish war went on, or one of them he went off to Western Europe incognito as an embassy soldier.

他学会了荷兰语,荷兰语是很复杂的,在1696年,当土耳其战争发生的时候,或者其中一次战争时,他以一名大使馆军人的身份匿名去了西欧

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One thing that he always did when he went on his grand tour is he always took fake names, as if he was signing into a hotel as Mr. and Mrs. John Smith.

当他环游西欧时,他常常使用假名,就好像入住酒店时登记用"张三"或"李四"做名字一样

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Musical notation is a particularly Western phenomenon and when you stop and think about it only we in the West, and by West what I mean is the United States and Canada and Western Europe and Russia, parts of South America, only we use musical notation and we use it principally for our high art music.

音乐记谱法是西方所特有的,你可以停下好好想想,只有我们这些土生土长的西方人,所谓西方,我指的是美国,加拿大,还有西欧和俄罗斯,包括一部分南美国家,只有我们使用音乐记谱法,并且我们把音乐记谱法应用于高雅音乐

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