当时他们正在讨论西方社会的问题。
西方社会大多思想观念开放。
第二次世界大战是现代西方社会高等教育的分水岭。
World War II was the watershed event for higher education in modern Western societies.
在西方社会,我们至少有两个正式名字,一个名和一个姓。
In western society, we have at least two official names, a given name and a surname.
然而,在很多非西方社会,一夫一妻制从未占主导地位。
In many non-Western societies, however, monogamy has never dominated.
如今西方社会正在为此付出代价。
以下是近来在西方社会流传的一些具有代表性的单句睿语。
Here's sampling of the some of the wittier one-lines circulating through Western society circles these days.
在西方社会人们推崇为食而生存,以至造成过度肥胖和心脏病。
Most of Western society lives to eat, hence all the obesity and heart disease.
显然,这些准则是西方社会不赞同吃狗肉行为的基础。
Evidently, these norms are the basis for the modern Western view that eating dogs is wrong.
在西方社会,我们至少有两个正式名字,一个教名还有一个姓氏名。
In Western Society we have at least two official names, a given name and a surname.
然而从西方社会就可明确看出将来女性不一定非选择工作而放弃婚姻。
But it is clear from Western societies that women will not necessarily choose a job over marriage.
在西方社会,几年中可能不会有足够的40多岁的人来代替50多岁的人。
There may not be enough people in their 40s around in western societies in a few years to rule out the over-50s.
西方社会的主要杀手是癌症和心脏病,这类疾病与饮食中较高的肉食水平有关。
The major killers in the west are cancer and heart disease, which are both linked with a diet high in meat.
他们声称的目标只不过是通过“权力归花的信仰”和榜样的力量来颠覆西方社会。
Their professed aim is nothing less than the subversion of Western society by "flower power" and force of example.
虽然西方社会热切关注,在接下来的十年里,热带森林还是以前所未有的速度被采伐着。
Despite a faddish Western concern for tropical forests, more were cleared in the ensuing decade than ever before.
即便是在西方社会,我们对性研究的焦点也仅限于城市地区,年轻力壮的人群,白人群。
Even within Western Settings we often see the focus on urban, young, able bodied, white folk.
堕落是贯穿故事始终的一大主题:蚁群、丛林内的直接冲突、西方社会的侵蚀,无一例外。
Corruption is a theme that leaches into the story from the bottom up: the ants, the immediate jungle conflict, the invasiveness of Western society.
现代西方社会可能表现得更突出更明显,那些青少年与同伴一起度过大量的时间。
They may concentrate and express themselves more starkly in modern Western cultures, in which teens spend so much time with each other.
接下来的问题:你如何鼓励这些事情,同时又要在西方社会,创造出必须的工作岗位?
Then the question becomes: How do you promote them while at the same time creating the jobs needed in all Western societies?
从公元前四世纪开始,商人们将丝绸交换黄金,象牙,马匹或贵重的石头而使其到达了西方社会。
Starting in the 4th century BCE silk began to reach the West by merchants who would exchange it for gold, ivory, horses or precious stones.
大约250年前,西方社会一致认为语言中的语法、句法、拼写规则都是很重要的。人们也十分遵守。
For about 250 years, the consensus in Western societies has been that grammar, syntax and spelling matter, and that rules have to be observed.
大学与科学事务大臣戴维·威利茨老实承认:“西方社会流动性较低,意味着个人平等的机会较小。”
As universities minister David Willetts has honestly acknowledged, "Western societies with less mobility are the ones with less equality too."
这些发生在西方社会的灾难为亚洲评论员提供了一个不容错过的良机来揭露西方社会的虚伪。
These sundry calamities in the West have provided Asian commentators with an unmissable chance to unveil Western hypocrisy.
相对于现代西方社会而言,在村庄里,这里展示了一种如此不同的,休闲的,友好的,迷人的社区生活。
It shows how different, relaxing, friendly and intriguing community-life in this village can be in comparison to the modern western society.
对一个流浪者来说最好的事情之一就是遇见其他流浪者(显然流浪者不适合西方社会的普遍的生活方式)。
One of the best things for a nomad, who obviously doesn't fit into the general lifestyle of Western society, is meeting other nomads.
相反,东方社会的自我约束力,集体责任感以及温厚儒雅的传统倒可以消除西方社会的许多恶疾。
By contrast, self-discipline, corporate responsibility and the pacific tradition of East Asia can offset many Western vices.//
西方社会表示,他们希望安理会能逐步对伊朗实施制裁,如果伊朗继续核计划,就不断对它施加压力。
Western diplomats say they want the U.N. sanctions to be imposed on Iran in an incremental fashion, increasing the pressure over time if Iran presses on with its nuclear programs.
西方社会表示,他们希望安理会能逐步对伊朗实施制裁,如果伊朗继续核计划,就不断对它施加压力。
Western diplomats say they want the U.N. sanctions to be imposed on Iran in an incremental fashion, increasing the pressure over time if Iran presses on with its nuclear programs.
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