请输入您要查询的单词:

 

单词 occidental
例句 occidental
Throughout his career as a studio boss, Run Run borrowed every occidental movie trend, lending each the special Shaw glamour and pizzazz. Run Run Shaw: The Last Emperor of Chinese Movies 2014-01-07T17:45:59Z
Her cultural references, drawing on occidental and Oriental traditions, produce an artistic vision that straddles both worlds. Special Report: Contemporary Art: The Frenetic World of Yi Zhou 2010-12-01T12:10:00Z
So is the “syndrome” all in the prejudiced occidental mind? Chinese restaurant syndrome: has MSG been unfairly demonised? 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z
When he returned to Europe and took the job at Elsa, he says, “I wanted to create an occidental version of the food I ate on Jeju.” | In Monte Carlo, the First All-Organic Restaurant to Receive a Michelin Star 2014-04-14T20:06:09Z
As the all-Asian chorus line, bewigged to resemble standard Broadway hoofers, strut their stuff, we realise just how offensive it is when, as more often happens, occidental actors play oriental roles. Hard talk: Broadway gets tough on America in crisis 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z
“They were my first introduction to occidental culture,” Chinese-born physicist Tsung Dao Lee recalled. A physicist so infallible, they called him the Pope 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z
The idea of “Japanese” alludes, perhaps, to “otherness,” to an enduring occidental fascination with the obliqueness of the Far East, of words that look like pictures and ancient ceremonies with complex rules. Junya Watanabe, One of Fashion’s Foremost Thinkers 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z
But long after Texaco is gone, the vision she’s granted him will endure: In the centre, an occidental urban logic, all lined up, ordered, strong like the French language. Garth Risk Hallberg on how fiction can ‘make it new’ 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z
The State of Michigan having been the place of my preparation for College, and the Michigan University the scene of my brilliant though premature graduation, I was not wholly unacquainted with occidental geography. Doesticks, What He Says 2012-03-14T02:00:27.940Z
If Montezuma was not precisely an occidental Charles the Fifth, neither is he to be regarded as an earlier Sitting Bull. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z
He possesses an oriental nature called to service in an occidental civilization. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z
Last year the former took his first look around in the occidental world. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z
"The successive volumes in the series may certainly be awaited with great interest, for they promise to deal with the most romantic phases of the awakening of America at the dawn of occidental civilization." Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z
In our return to Cincinnati we took another route, which, as we approached the town, gave us from the lofty amphitheatre of hills that encircle this "occidental queen" a new view of her charms. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z
The three main systems are known in Cuba as the occidental, central and oriental. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z
Nearly every nation, whether oriental or occidental, whose religious faith has been commemorated in history, discloses in its creed a belief in the trifold nature and triune division of the Deity. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z
She became the admiring disciple of a girl who worked at a Jewish furrier's in Regent Street, and whose occidental habitat gave her a halo of aristocracy. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z
They seemed to be oriental souls functioning for a life in occidental bodies, and the clothes pinched. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z
The use of sugar and milk in tea and coffee is an occidental abuse that the orientals who originally began the drinking of these substances find it extremely difficult to understand. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z
It is a land which resembles you, where all is beautiful, rich, tranquil and honest, where phantasy has built and decorated an occidental China, where life is sweet to breathe, and happiness married to silence. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z
Two men were applying epithets of an uncomplimentary nature to each other, when suddenly one of them passed the bounds of even occidental toleration. From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z
I am referring to those females known to the occidental races by the name of Geishas, and the men we call Taiko-Mochi, i.e. 'tam-bour,' though the latter were comparatively few in number. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z
Hail thou poet occidental, First in Indiana's Clime— Whose true passions sentimental, Outward flowed in living rhyme. The Word Hoosier; John Finley Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2 2011-03-21T02:00:12.857Z
But on the whole, may we not agree that the list indicated constitutes the authentic accepted canon of fairy-tales established and approved by the teachers and children of occidental tradition and rearing? Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z
Nevertheless we find the concept of an element as “a substance from which all bodies are made or derived” held at the very beginning of occidental philosophy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z
But there is this to observe—that, with both Greeks and Latins, the Cyclops myth is an occidental and not an oriental one, and is more strictly localised than almost any other. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z
She might become, it is possible, more civilised on the lines of occidental civilisation, after which she strives so earnestly. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z
In occidental thought, the Greeks were the first to draw the distinction between the genuine and the spurious in a generalized fashion and to formulate and enforce its tremendous significance for the conduct of life. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
The oldest of beast-tales available for occidental children is the story of Reynard the Fox. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z
Classical Libraries preserved in Constantinople, so long as studied, made there a Goshen of light in the Dark Ages, and when carried to Italy proved a Promethean spark to kindle occidental culture anew. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses
It was run on the most approved occidental lines. Lafcadio Hearn
I can only hope that Japan's real motive and aspiration for emulating occidental civilisation is now becoming better known to the Western nations, at all events to the bulk of the French people.' A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z
Like the chrysoberyl, it is obtained chiefly from Ceylon, but though coming from the East it is often called “occidental cat’s-eye”—a term intended simply to distinguish it from the finer or “oriental” stone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt"
Heaven and earth!" thought I, "can this uncle of mine be a kind of occidental Aladdin? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845
The Mæonian sun has ripened the powers of the occidental poet. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845
There was something pathetic in watching his earnest endeavours to make his occidental relative understand what he wished to say. Lafcadio Hearn
Besides, we are not so wealthy as the occidental nations. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z
But on these I will not dwell; they were an outwork; it was in the occidental scenery that Skelt was all himself. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time
It is extremely difficult for the Anglo-Saxon to realize it, but men like Mr. Dainopoulos find occidental institutions a spiritual desolation. Command
But of course, this may be only one of my occidental illusions. Captain Macedoine's Daughter
There are thousands of instances in the Far East of the fine race produced by the mixture of occidental and Japanese, especially, indeed, in the Koizumi children, who are unusually healthy and intelligent. Lafcadio Hearn
We come into the comity of nations, but that entirely on the occidental basis of civilisation. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z
Contrary to the occidental custom, fasting on Saturday was forbidden. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention"
The bright occidental star, of which we have all read in the Preface to the Bible, has risen over the darkness of Europe. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25)
The stupid injustice of my interior anger came home to me, and I sought again for the reason why I demanded of him my own occidental idealism. Captain Macedoine's Daughter
Not by thousands of miles only was he separated from his occidental relations, but by immemorial centuries of thought. Lafcadio Hearn
Japan will always continue to advance on the lines of occidental civilisation. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z
They have been retold simply, with no changes in style or expression beyond such details of presentation which differences between oriental and occidental viewpoints at times compel. The Chinese Fairy Book
For them, as for him, the occidental star rose somewhat red and angry. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25)
No occidental instrument had ever such a golden, conquering tone. Melomaniacs
When he came to issue with the officials at Kumamoto, and later at Tokyo, a change was effected in his view, and he longed earnestly to make him an occidental—one of his own people. Lafcadio Hearn
At any rate, I have no intention of attacking any occidental vices: our writers do not indulge in writing on these matters either. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z
He has no theory of an occidental mind to explain acts of ours of which he cannot grasp the meaning; he would only not understand. The Soul of a People
Some of the concords required, are anomalous to the occidental grammars, while there is a manifest general resemblance to these ancient plans of thought. Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846
It was my first and last experience at that occidental version of the Hara-Kiri, called a musicale. Melomaniacs
Their emotional and intellectual life is no more altered by their occidental neighbours than the surface of a mirror is changed by passing reflections, as says their interpreter, Lafcadio Hearn. Lafcadio Hearn
Cards, for instance, are much played nowadays among our people, since we have learned that they are played generally among our occidental benefactors. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z
It requires a purely occidental intellect to master the problem before me. The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories
The question, however, may be raised whether or not the complete adoption of occidental science and organization of industry would not produce far-reaching changes in social organization. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
It may have been—who knows?—the first lesson in occidental geography submitted to the "Brother of the Sun and the Sister of the Moon and Stars." As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century
By nationalising himself a Japanese, Hearn's identity, so far as his occidental inheritance went, had vanished forever. Lafcadio Hearn
In this manner did this occidental star set in our horizon. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
It was the season of “Indian summer”—that singular phenomenon of the occidental clime, when the sun, as if rueing his southern declension, appears to return along the line of the zodiac. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
Of all such conflicts, that upon which the world has now fully entered between occidental and oriental ideas is not merely the most extensive; it is also by far the most interesting and picturesque. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
But I anticipate; this belongs properly to the occidental flourishing period of the alchemy of scholasticism. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts
The book is perhaps more intensely Japanese and fanciful than any yet written, and to occidental readers the least interesting. Lafcadio Hearn
It aimed by the crudest means to root out every idea of modern life and thought in China; every occidental invention, every progressive method of society, every scientific discovery for the betterment of humanity. Winning the Wilderness
The speaker was incapable of making allowance for oriental excess in Bible language; it suited her position as an advocate to take the hyperbolic words of Jesus in an occidental literalness. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York
The two great cultural divisions of the human race are the oriental and occidental. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
The occidental spiritual exercise corresponds to the Hindu yoga. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts
The fact of occidental fiction being revolting to the Japanese moral sense is far-fetched. Lafcadio Hearn
A second pastime was her patience, that bond which knits together our occidental civilization. The Third Miss Symons
They do everything different from our occidental methods. Pan-Islam
Manila, after twenty years of American control, is a fascinating mixture of past and present; of romance and commercialism; of oriental ease and occidental hustle. Wanderings in the Orient
This occidental world, whose birth is the real thing announced at Troy in that marvelous cradle-song of Europe, called the Iliad, has already begun its career, and shows its earliest period in Phæacia. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
It struck me at the time as curious that a foreigner so eager to interpret Japan should be himself so occidental in appearance. Lafcadio Hearn
The bicyclist is better catered for, he has cinder side-paths almost all over Belgium and accordingly he should enjoy his touring in occidental and oriental Flanders even more than the automobilist. The Automobilist Abroad
With railway speed, and thunder step, the Express of Harnden brings to his hand almost the only emigrant original of Blackwood that ever touches these occidental shores. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
The use of crystals and other bright objects for this purpose has been common to occultists and psychics at all times, past and present, and at all places, oriental or occidental. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
Our gaze is held by a shining world that dominates the whole of the occidental heavens. Astronomy for Amateurs
Think for a moment," he says in one of his essays, "how important an article of occidental attire is the single costly item of white shirts! Lafcadio Hearn
Of course, it admits of no personal liberty, and the consequences of introducing occidental notions of liberty into it have yet to be seen. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
The great oriental ruby above his forehead seemed to burn more brilliantly than ever as if to shame the frivolous occidental jewels that twinkled before it. Jewel Weed
The sultana, speaking with decidedly un-oriental diction, came shimmering over to them, and shook hands with occidental heartiness. Miss Pat at School
In much the same way we may be led to suppose that a Chinese book and an occidental paper-bound book are much the same thing in origin as they are to the eye. The Booklover and His Books
A Japanese marriage is simply a legal pledge, and is not invested with any of the solemnity and importance cast around it in occidental society. Lafcadio Hearn
The two great cultural divisions of the human race are the oriental and the occidental. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
This is what you, the workers in the occidental countries, should and must avoid by all possible means since you have at heart the success of a social reconstruction. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919
In my memory, Sofia is a gem of an up-to-date city, while Bucharest is a poor imitation of the occidental municipality. Riviera Towns
What are the chief defects of the Chinese book from an occidental point of view? The Booklover and His Books
He had heard from me of oriental scales, and savage music, in which there were fractional tones unknown to the occidental system. Lafcadio Hearn
The Japanese invented nothing and had no peculiar knowledge or skill; they merely took occidental science and used it. Civics and Health
The occidental conception of manhood is in some considerable measure drawn in negative terms. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
This is a concession to occidental taste which all but oriental enthusiasts will appreciate. The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs
His conception of social and moral values is so obtusely or radically different from those of the truly occidental civilizations that there is little common ground here. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
That intermingling of oriental and occidental rites, of Persian and Pythagorean opinions, which we have pointed out in the doctrines of Philo, is unmistakable in the creeds of these two sects. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Nay, Hylas, I have come To where life's landscape takes a western slope, And breezes from the occidental shores Sigh thro' the thinning locks around my brow, And on my cheeks fan flickering summer fires. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems
Consider the doves; there is no distinction as to whether it is an oriental or an occidental dove. The Promulgation of Universal Peace
The prospect down this occidental slope is diversified by deep valleys, lands-lides, and flowering trees. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
It is not native to the occidental temper and it has been held in control by our scientific approach to the facts of our world and our experiences therein. Modern Religious Cults and Movements
If any should imagine that time is money in Morocco, let them undertake a shopping expedition in Tangier, the town on which, if anywhere in Morocco, occidental energy has set its seal. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond
It became a great occidental circus when Colonel Pike married the proprietress. Hilda A Story of Calcutta
Her occidental mind would not and could not accept as possibilities these mysterious attributes of the oriental mind. The Adventures of Kathlyn
The plane, of which there are two kinds, one found in Asia, which is called the oriental plane: that found in America is called the occidental plane; but the Americans call it button-wood, or sycamore. Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia
At those moments Angria is perhaps most himself, and I, perhaps, am most myself; which might prove to a philosopher that there is a radical antagonism between the oriental and the occidental character. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
The first step would be to ascertain whether this narcotic was occidental or oriental. The Voice in the Fog
The occidental mantle, made of honest homespun, uniform in colour, and with a wide hem to allow for shrinkage; but guaranteed to stand all weathers and to last a lifetime. Leonie of the Jungle
The Hindus are a suicidal race; the reverse of the occidental conception, suicide is a quick and glorious route to Heaven. The Adventures of Kathlyn
The prince of Souzdal watched the progress of events in occidental Russia with great interest. The Empire of Russia
These plates, apparently set forth to suit oriental and occidental body conformation, are either directly provided with loops or have around the outer margin a brim several centimeters high, in which rings are fastened. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
This constant occurrence of Oriental freakishness in the architecture of Dutch towns, in contrast with Dutch occidental four-square simplicity and plainness of character, is an effect to which one never quite grows accustomed. A Wanderer in Holland
For the races of India, Japan, and even China, are no farther from us to-day than the ancestors of many of our occidental fellow-citizens were a century ago. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895
Even the peddlers of lace and drawn-work find it hard to accustom themselves to the occidental idea of a market price. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making
Kief, and all occidental Russia, thus ravaged by interminable wars, desolated by famine and by flame, was rapidly on the decline, and was fast lapsing into barbarism. The Empire of Russia
But what a charming occidental place it is! Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)
The earliest teachers of the occidental portion of that people having been Romish priests, they of course used their own letters for writing such Slavic words or names as occasion required. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations
The mixture contains thus far almost purely occidental races. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895
But our occidental kind with animal milk and rennet is never eaten by Chinese and the mere mention of it has been known to make them shiver. The Complete Book of Cheese
Such, briefly, is a statement of that phenomenon which is attracting the attention of occidental students of psychology, and which has been fittingly termed "the attainment of cosmic consciousness." Cosmic Consciousness
The scene in this room is an ideal picture of the popular occidental conception of the "gorgeous East." Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
The Russians have their cyclus of heroic legends, as well as the occidental nations. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations
There were, however, odd customers enough, of all races, oriental and occidental, greasy and washed. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5
It was something neither Moslem nor modern; not merely oriental and yet very different from the new occidental nations from which I came. The New Jerusalem
The attainment of the spiritual experience described in occidental language as "cosmic consciousness" is the goal. Cosmic Consciousness
And the whole stood on a museum and library representing that larger evolution of the occidental civilisation which showed them they were merely children of the past. Civics: as Applied Sociology
Jesus' continual references reveal how strikingly alike is the oriental and the occidental; the first and the twentieth centuries. Quiet Talks on Prayer
Associated words: Occident, Hesperian, Hesperus, Hesperides. western, a. occidental. west wind. Putnam's Word Book
The task, too, of the occidental United States was double. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
Another symbol used throughout Japan as a means of teaching the masses the essential doctrines of "The Compassionate One," has become familiar to occidental people as a sort of "curio." Cosmic Consciousness
He was much more indulgent than England and Austria respecting our sins against occidental policy. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle
Herod represents such an ancient, oriental point of view; but Judæa is on the eve of becoming occidental and modern. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig
If happiness and a large content be a laudable aim of life how far are we—the occidental world—succeeding in attaining it? Quit Your Worrying!
He handled with consummate skill the odd or complicated metres of eastern and southern lyric forms, and he was most versatile as a translator of foreign poetry, ancient and modern, occidental and oriental. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes
He chose occidental turquoises exclusively, stones which, properly speaking, are only a fossil ivory impregnated with coppery substances whose sea blue is choked, opaque, sulphurous, as though yellowed by bile. Against the Grain
The regulation of the liquor traffic is, perhaps, after the labor question, the most universal subject of legislation in occidental nations. Popular Law-making
I regret not being able to give the reader any history of this occidental hierarchy. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
There is an occidental misapprehension to the effect that every woman beyond the borders of the Levant is a languorous and waxen lily, floating in a milk-warm pool of idleness. The Slim Princess
Shun sitting next the wight, whose drone Bores, sotto voce, you alone With flat colloquial pressure: Debarr'd from general talk, you droop Beneath his buzz, from orient soup, To occidental Cheshire. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 327, August 16, 1828
The stirring tom-tom, if not the ragtime which sets the occidental capering to-day, was common to the Chinese three or four hundred years ago. America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat
In Arabia, Death rides a camel, instead of a white horse, as our occidental myth has it, and the camel's bell is the music to which all life is attuned. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10
But on these I will not dwell; they were an outwork; it was in the occidental scenery that Skelt was all himself.  Memories and Portraits
Major Putnam was a bald-headed, bull-necked man, short and very broad, with one of those rather apoplectic faces that are produced by a prolonged attempt to combine the oriental climate with the occidental luxuries. The Wisdom of Father Brown
A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Chinese music from an occidental standpoint has been unjustly described as "clashing cymbals, twanging guitars, harsh flageolets, and shrill flutes, ear-splitting and headache-producing to the foreigner." America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat
Cape 'Turn Again' is the furthest occidental point reached by the far-famed exploration of O Zargo. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
It is the landmark in my memory which tells me where I first encountered the vigorous new vernacular of the occidental plains and mountains. Roughing It, Part 1.
Be it so, said Panurge; but sell me one of them, I beseech you; and that for a cause, paying you ready money upon the nail, in good and lawful occidental current cash. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
Sing-Lo was at his elbow, changing plates: it was assumed, justly enough, that he would not be able to follow the intricacies of a situation purely occidental. Bertram Cope's Year
They mostly wore the skirts and hats of Paris, and if the scene of the fountain was Arabically oriental the promenade was almost Americanly occidental. Familiar Spanish Travels
If I remember, her yashmak was not gathered at the ankles, but hung loose like occidental trousers; and the day we met she wore simply her own hair. The Minister's Charge
But he made it clear that for beast-tales and for drolls, the majority of those current in the mouths of occidental people were derived from Eastern and mainly Indian sources. Indian Fairy Tales
I hardly know whether to be ashamed of having been awed by hearing of the little Egyptian that his native tongue was Arabic, and that he spoke nothing more occidental than Turkish. Venetian Life
Sing-Lo, who had come in with a maple mousse of his own making, smiled at last; and he smiled still more widely when, at the end of the course, his chief occidental masterpiece was praised. Bertram Cope's Year
The late Lord Salisbury, speaking on the last Indian Councils Bill, spoke of the risk of applying occidental machinery in India. Indian speeches (1907-1909)
Oh that the bright occidental star which has beamed on a world which, before its rising, was plunged in darkness and deluge, would only shed one little beam upon him! Seekers after God
Backward and even benighted Christians these Eastern churchmen may be, but they hold a few fundamental ideas pretty fast, and are readier to fight for them than their occidental brethren. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914)
The Philippines at first were called “The Islands of the West,” as they are considered to be occidental and not oriental. Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot
Bravely attired, and of a generous port, Raoul Dauvray installs himself in one of the palatial hotels which are the pride of the occidental city. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance
Well, we ought to have thought of that before we applied occidental education; we applied that, and a measure of occidental machinery must follow. Indian speeches (1907-1909)
Silence and decorum marked all the transactions of the weekly messengers, paying in the heavy accounts of the hundreds of New York butchers who drew their daily supplies from these great occidental cattle handlers. The Midnight Passenger : a novel
The chief tenets of the Southern School are so well known to occidental scholars that they almost always mean the Southern School by the word Buddhism. The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
The popular idea that things occidental are reversed in the Orient was amusingly caricatured in a sketch he made of a German face; by reversing its lines he converted it into an old-time Japanese countenance. Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot
The comfort of Colonel Joe's bachelor establishment places the stranger in touch with the occidental city. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance
On the 24th of March 1603, set 'that bright occidental Star,' and ' that mock Sun' fr� the north took by succession its place. Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar
He found his occidental mind running parallel with the oriental, bridging the spaces which otherwise it never would have crossed, and at the end it seized upon the key. The River's End
Trafalgar is nothing but a corruption of Tarf al-Gharb-the side or skirt of the West; it being the most occidental point then reached by Arab conquest. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1
There is such a rare combination here of the primitive and the progressive, of the oriental and occidental, that one is inclined to go off into exclamation points. Brazilian Sketches
The counterpane and hangings of the bed, the window curtains, the little carpet, and all the ornamental textile fabrics in the room are oriental and gorgeous: the paper on the walls is occidental and paltry. Arms and the Man
His neighbour who had been puzzled at prayer-time now hitched up his flowing robe to withdraw a paper of cigarettes from the pocket of a quite occidental garment. Merton of the Movies
It is needless to quote instances concerning this phase of "Bathos:" they abound in every occidental translation of every Oriental work, especially the French, such as Baron de Slane's honest and conscientious "Ibn Khaldún." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16
Some Deer on these Mountains afford the occidental Bezoar, not coming from a Goat, as some report. A New Voyage to Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country; together with the present state thereof; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians; giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc.
It may be doubted whether any oriental race has ever had an interpreter gifted with more perfect insight and sympathy than Lafcadio Hearn has brought to the translation of Japan into our occidental speech. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Yes: there lay the root of the matter—this feeling of aloofness from all that was occidental, a feeling which the English appointments of the room did nothing to dispel. Fire-Tongue
随便看

 

英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2000-2023 Newdu.com.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/10 9:58:52