For anyone who feels bound up with this world's fate, the clash of civilizations has something agonizing about it.

对任何一个感到与世界的命运紧密相连的人，文明的冲突有种让他苦恼的东西。

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Within these troubled walls, Samuel P. Huntington's essay "The Clash of Civilizations?" is bound to resonate.

萨缪尔 .P. 亨廷顿的一篇名为《文化的冲突》的论文在这些被围困于围城中的人群间产生了共鸣。

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The clash of civilizations would have been easy for the West to win if it had simply pitted the ideas and institutions of the 21st century against those of the seventh.

西方在文明的冲突中，以21世纪的研究成果战胜第七世纪陋习并非易事。

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"A clash of Arab civilizations; clashes between Arab regimes and their own people, the regimes and their domestic rivals and insurgencies,clashes between Arab regimes themselves."

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But in his new book, "The Strong Horse: Power,Politics and the Clash of Arab Civilizations,"

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"The Strong Horse: Power,Politics,and the Clash of Arab Civilizations,"

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But they also require us to look carefully at local circumstances and not to fall into the trap of magnifying the potency of the al Qaida associates or even to see this as the clash of civilizations or a broad Islamic Jihad against the west.

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We have long been awaiting to hear the United States of America, the world's number one power, shouldering its full share of responsibility in avoiding the clash of cultures and civilizations between East and West.

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And second, the militants' aim to provoke a clash of civilizations between the West and an interpretation of Islam that rejects pluralism and modernity.

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