但是我在中国的时候问中国人，他们都说不知道这个说法，只有在西方世界才说这是中国人的说法。
But when I was in China, I asked them, and they said they knew nothing of this saying, only that in the West they say it is a Chinese expression!
在与俄罗斯接壤的国家中，只有趁俄罗斯国力虚弱时匆忙加入了北约的波罗的海诸国可以寻求西方的庇护。
AmongRussia’s immediate neighbours, only the Baltic states, which slippedinto NATO when Russia was weak, can claim such protection.
全世界的研究表明幸福感在中年时期会下降，他说，这并不是只有西方国家才有的现象。
Studies around the world have shown that happiness tends to dip in midlife, he said, and that this was not just a phenomenon confined to the Western world.
只有少数的西方国家在法庭上如此放任秘密行为。
Few Western countries are as relaxed about secrecy in court.
在冷战时代的早期，东西德之间长达800英里的边界并不戒备森严，只有一些带刺的铁丝网，因而成千上万的东德人逃到了西方。
In those early cold war days, the 800-mile border between East and West Germany was lightly guarded and delineated by a few strands of barbed wire, and thousands fled to the West.
只有在现代监狱制度化以后，这种“围观惩罚”(spectator punishment)才渐渐在西方国家消失。
It was only after the modern prison became institutionalized that this type of spectator punishment gradually disappeared in the West.
西方心理学正在接受的其实已经被圣人和神秘主义者教导了几个世纪：痛苦只有在我们学会摆脱思维后才能结束。
Western psychology is just accepting something saints and mystics have taught for centuries: that this suffering ends only when we learn to detach from the thinking mind.
在中国城市，蓝领女性的法定退休年龄只有50岁，白领女性为55岁，男性为60岁，大大低于多数西方国家。
The official pension age in urban areas is just 50 for blue-collar women, 55 for white-collar women and 60 for men, significantly lower than in most western countries.
在西方，这样大量的船队和海港生活只有在上个世纪有关圣佛郎西斯科，马赛，布里克瑟姆的凹板印刷照片上才能看见。
Here is a throng of vessels and a harbour life that in the West you see only in turn-of-the-last-century photogravures of San Francisco, Marseille or Brixham.
我们总吃这样的甜饼，通常我们会把它作为早点，因为我们没有糖浆，这种糖浆只有在美国或者西方国家才有。
I don't know, we eat a lot of pancakes. This is a breakfast food, because we don't have syrup, which is apparently something just American on Western.
日本在上世纪八十年代追上西方，在一些方面甚至超过西方，但自1990年以来，其年均增幅只有1%。
Japan caught up with the West (and by some accounts exceeded it) in the 1980s, but then the bubble burst, and since 1990 its economy has grown by an average of just one percent per year.
西方人只有在熟识对方的情况下才会靠得很近。
西方人只有在熟识对方的情况下才会靠得很近。
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