Where he is famed for his history of the whaler that inspired Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" and for arguing plausibly in his "Sea of Glory" that the ocean, not the West, was America's first frontier.

他的成名一方面得益于他的捕鲸史激发了赫尔曼·梅尔维尔创作《白鲸记》的灵感，另一方面也来自他在《光荣之海》中似乎有理的主张：海洋，而不是西部，才是美国的第一前线。

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where he is famed for his history of the whaler that inspired Herman Melville's “Moby Dick” and for arguing plausibly in his “Sea of Glory” that the ocean, not the West, was America's first frontier.

他的成名一方面得益于他的捕鲸史激发了赫尔曼•梅尔维尔创作《白鲸记》的灵感，另一方面也来自他在《光荣之海》中似乎有理的主张：海洋，而不是西部，才是美国的第一前线。

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The greening of the West does not delight everyone.

西方的绿化工作并没有让每个人都高兴。

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When one thinks of the "Wild West" of America, he does not think of the miners who opened the way to the West.

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The civilization of the West, however, was not the result of some inevitable process through which other cultures will automatically pass.

然而,西方文明的发展之路,并非经历了其他文明必经之途中,一些不可避免的发展过程

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Did you... I mean, cause I could predict both of where you are, you are in the west bank, you are in Israel, and not really seeing a way. You know what I mean. And so what did you resolve?

那你们，我的意思是，我能够预计,你们两个所处的情形，你在西岸，你在以色列，却不是很容易找到一个方式，你们懂我的意思吗？,你们如何解决的？

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Militant Islamism is not the West's fault but a homegrown scourge that threatens the West much as fascism did.

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So it was not the West's superior values that allowed it to rule the world, but rather its flaws.

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But it was the Berlin Wall that fell in 1989, not the West.

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