There is growing interest from the West about the relationship between the mind and body - for instance, the physical effects of meditation.

西方对精神和身体的关系问题产生越来越浓厚的兴趣，比如，坐禅对身体影响。

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Thoughts as varied as policies to prevent violent crime, the romance of the Old West, and even the implications of children playing with toy guns come to mind.

像防止暴力犯罪的政策、旧西部情节、甚至是孩童玩儿玩具枪的画面之类的五花八门的想法都会涌入脑海。

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If the sun were to rise in the west, I'd never change my mind to love youforever.

即使太阳从西边出来,我对你的爱也不会改变.(顺便温习一下虚拟语气吧)

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The words "Wild West" bring to mind just one character: the cowboy.

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Tragically the 'West' does not understand the Eastern mind.

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But it is as well to keep in mind that many intellectuals in the West still consider capitalism to be immoral: too devoted to a vulgar worship of money, too dependent on greed, too deeply founded on adversarial individualism.

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That question, of course, is often posed with respect to what the West's leaders and their peoples could possibly have had in mind as first they ignored, then tried to appease, the rising power and growing malevolence of Adolf Hitler and his fellow totalitarians.

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