西方人长期以来就喜欢探索“神秘的东方”，但在我们东方人中却很少有人对“神秘的西方”有真正的体验。

Westerners have long enjoyed exploring the "mysterious Orient", but few of us in the Orient have had a real taste of the "mysterious Occident".

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但在东方哲学里，可能就没那么麻烦，因为东方文化本来就承认事物的二重性，认为有些事情可黑可白。

But in eastern philosophies, it may be less problematic because there is a recognition of dualism, that something can be one thing as well as another.

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东方是个相对的名词，譬如说，法国在英国的东方，但在意大利的西方。

RELATIVE】East is a relative term, for example, France is east of England but west of Italy.

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So, let's look, Act II Scene II. You remember this, Romeo: "but soft, what light through yonder window breaks. It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

让我们一起看，第二幕第二场，你们记得吧，罗密欧说，但是，温和的，那边窗子里,亮起来的是什么光，那就是东方，朱丽叶就是太阳“

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Snakes are symbols of renewed life and fertility in the East ; because they shed their skins so they seem to be eternally young; and they're also phallic symbols.

在东方，蛇一般都是新生命或者多产的象征,因为，蛇的蜕皮，似乎能使它永远年轻;,蛇同样也是生殖力的象征。

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The remains and records of these strongholds make it clear that the political organization was an imitation of oriental monarchy.

这些堡垒的遗迹和记录表明,这个政治体制效法了东方君主政体

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