In western societies, a woman must adopt her husband's last name after marriage.
东方人在吃西餐的时候往往用不惯餐刀。
People from the east are not used to knives and forks when having a western-style meal.
这几位江西人说的是赣方言。
These people from Jiangxi province speak their own dialect.
敌人已经向西南方向撤逃了。
The enemy has already retreated fleeing southwest.
Western people consider China a distant country.
西方人认为中国是个遥远的国度。
The problem for the west, however, is that Japanese culture is alien to our way of life.
然而,西方人的问题在于,日本文化与我们的生活方式格格不入。
It seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes.
在不熟悉的西方人看来,这似乎是一套奇怪的仪式。
Most other observers have long accepted that Puccini's work takes place in that hazy, mythic Orient that has for centuries existed only in the mind of the West.
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