My subsidiary question was this: If we can come up with a good explanation for the West 's past ascendancy, can we then offer a prognosis for its future?

我的补充问题是：如果我们能够找出一个充分的理由，来解释以往西方的统治地位，那么我们能否对其未来做出一个预测呢？

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Rapper Kanye West suddenly stepped onstage, snatched the award from her hands, and began extolling the virtues of Taylor's competitor Beyonce.

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But if you can like, be stable enough to support the entire family, live on the Upper West Side, it's a class. It's a status symbol.

但如果你能住在上西区，让自己足够稳定，并能养活全家，那就是一种类似阶级一样的社会地位的象征了。

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There is no border in the West. So Sal has to reinvent one, and in some sense it's a border of time.

西部里本身没有什么分界线，所以萨尔必须新发明一个，他所分的界限可以说按照时间来的。

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Apparently not knowing where West's gun was aimed, Hamoody cracked and gave information about the planned ambush on West's convoy, thwarting the attack.

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Earlier, as the show began, King said Adams had received a letter from West's family, saying that if Adams discussed West's case on the show, the family would ask the Medical Board of California to decertify him.

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"The developments in the Arab world and the crisis in the West's relations with Iran over the nuclear program has resulted in Afghanistan being relegated into a secondary issue for the U.S. and the West, " read one editorial in 8-Subh, the country's largest private newspaper, last month.

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