That's a pretty unique claim. And they carried with them the idea and the traditions that laid the foundation for the major religions of the western world: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

为现今西方世界奠定基础的,理念和传统，就是由他们,传承下来的：,犹太教，基督教及伊斯兰教。

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at the end of their four years, that they feel cultured and familiar with, um, I guess the Western world,

让学生在四年的学习之后具备一定的文化素养，能够熟知西方世界及其文化。

哥伦比亚大学的教程 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He was a Victorian historian preoccupied with the dissolution of Western civilization.

他是一个维多利亚时代的历史学家,专门研究西方文明的瓦解。

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That such attacks on the greatest achievements of the west should be made by Western intellectuals is perfectly in keeping with the Western tradition.

这些对于西方灿烂文明的抨击,应该是来自西方学者们的,这与西方的传统相一致

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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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And there are some communities that are frankly suspicious of Western medicine and don't want people to come in with their modern approaches and feed things to members of their community.

有一些社会团体,对西药是极其怀疑的,他们不欢迎带来现代方法的人,也不愿给民众吃什么东西

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And the dialogue ends with one of the great moving death scenes in western civilization and as Plato says-- let's get the quote here exactly right-- "Of all those we have known, he was the best and also the wisest and the most upright."

然后对话以一个,西方文明史上最伟大感人的死亡场景结束,用柏拉图的话说,让我们引用的更准确些,在我们所知的所有人中,他是最好,最有智慧,最正直的人

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With the rise of Christianity, western religion came to be defined to a large degree by the confession of, or the intellectual assent to, certain doctrinal points of belief.

随着基督教的兴起，西方宗教被定义成,很大程度上指被解释为，或被知识分子一致认可为，对特定教义的信仰。

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to be familiar with the major works and thinkers and literature, music, and art of, uh, Western history.

了解西方历史上主要著作、思想家、文学、音乐和艺术。

哥伦比亚大学的教程 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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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Now, let me carry on with this by talking about the views of society which are characteristic of the two traditions in Western civilization.

下面我们继续,来谈一下有关于,体现了这两种不同西方文明传统,及其特点的社会观

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In other words, to understand and cope with the problems that we all face, we all need to know and to grapple with the Western experience.

换句话说,为了理解并解决我们所面对的问题,我们必须了解并掌握西方文明的经验

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