The subtitle of Jacques's book refers to "the end of the western world", but he is not claiming the west is going to collapse or disappear.

雅克那本书的副标题为“西方世界的结束”，但他并不是宣称西方将崩溃或消失。

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Of all the regions of the non-Western world, only East Asia has the potential to achieve parity with the West.

在所有非西方的地区中，只有东亚才有这个潜能和西方平起平坐。

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That is the dominant sort of paradigm of what life is all about, at least in the Western world and a good deal more of it where the West has had an influence.

这可以说是有关生命的一种主导范式,至少对于西方世界,以及受西方影响的其他国家是如此

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The shift in military spending from west to east is also affecting the world's biggest western defence contractors.

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People who grew up in America and western Europe have become used to the idea that the West dominates the world economy.

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"Islamic bankers should do some missionary work in the Western world to promote the concept of Shariah banking, for which many in the West are more than ready now, " Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the World Islamic Economic Forum last month in Jakarta.

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