For Western Europeans, the opposite is true.

对于西欧人士而言则恰好相反。

For Western Europeans, the Renaissance was about reconnecting with the wisdom of antiquity.

对于西欧人来说，文艺复兴代表着重温古代智慧。

The Western Europeans that came to the New World were looking for very specific things.

来到新大陆的西欧人希望获得一些特别的东西。

Western Europeans wanted to draw clear lines between the ages.

西欧人想在各个时代之间划清界限。

Because Slavic people were enslaved by all kinds of folks, including Western Europeans, for centuries.

因为几个世纪以来，斯拉夫人民被包括西欧人在内的各种各样的人奴役。

When the first western Europeans reached the Americas they saw it as Terra Nullius; land belonging to nobody and therefore open to exploitation.

当第一批欧洲人到达美洲时他们以为这里无人居住这片土地不属于任何人因此大家可以任意开采。

And since the existence of a medieval Roman Empire suggested there were Europeans who'd never lost touch with antiquity, Western Europeans wanted to draw clear lines between the ages.

从中世纪罗马帝国的存在就能看出有些欧洲人从来没有忘记古代的成就，西欧人试图画出清晰的界线。

In the struggle over Ukraine's future, it appears that some Western Europeans are pushing East. I'm Christopher Cruise.

在关于乌克兰未来的斗争中，一些西欧人似乎正在向东推进。我是克里斯托弗·克鲁斯。

A wave of exploration was about to begin but before we discuss it in greater detail we need to examine life in the America's before the western Europeans arrived.

一场探索热潮即将展开但是在我们仔细讨论这一点之前我们需要看一下欧洲人到来之前美洲的情况。

For most western Europeans it was the first time they had ever been able to look closely at Greek sculpture, and they were overwhelmed and inspired by the breathing vitality and the beauty of these works.

对大多数西欧人来说，这是他们第一次近距离接触希腊雕刻，不由被它们的魅力深深折服。

Now, lingua franca literally means language of the Franks, which at the time of its creation, really referred to all Western Europeans, not just the people who live in what is now France.

现在， lingua franca 的字面意思是法兰克人的语言，在它诞生的时候， 实际上指的是所有西欧人，而不仅仅是生活在现在法国境内的人。