There exist similarity and difference between Chinese and Western cultures in terms of vocabulary, idioms, discourses, thinking patterns and history.

中西文化在词汇、成语、篇章结构、思维模式、历史等多方面存在异同。

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Much as scholars want to look for overall patterns and formulate useful generalizations, the transmission of each text is a different story and each manuscripts history is unique.

正如学者们想要寻找整体模式并制定有用的概括一样，每个文本的传播是一个不同的故事，每个手稿的历史都是独一无二的。

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Much as scholars want to look for overall patterns and formulate useful generalizations, the transmission of each text is a different story and each manuscript's history is unique.

就像学者们想要寻找整体的模式和形成有用的概括一样，每一文本的传播都是一个不同的故事，每一份手稿的历史都是独一无二的。

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But in the course of history, we settled beginning in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, down into just two patterns: what we call the major pattern and the minor pattern.

但在历史的发展过程中,在十六到十七世纪期间,人们最终确定了下列两种模式,我们称之为大调模式和小调模式

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And so part of the tragedy of the situation has been that neither side is getting exactly what they want, but it's not been possible to break out of old patterns and a difficult history.

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