1·Sam Shepard is considered to be the most influential American dramatist at the present age, and his family trilogy, The Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child and True West are his masterpieces.
谢泼德被视为当代美国最有影响的剧作家，其家庭三部曲（《饥饿阶级的诅咒》、《被埋葬的孩子》和《真正的西部》）是他的主要代表作。
2·This is all the more true because Kosovo has increasingly become part of an argument between the West and Russia which has little to do with its rival Serbs and Albanians.
这无疑是正确的，因为科索沃已经日益成为西方与俄罗斯争论的一部分，而与塞尔维亚人和阿尔巴尼亚人的种族纷争毫无瓜葛。
3·But the other Sudanese, especially in the battered west and marginal east, will once again find themselves woefully lacking in true representation.
但是其他的苏丹人，尤其是那些饱受摧残的西部人和少数的东部人，迟早会再次发现他们不幸地失去了真正的地位。
4·True, the distribution may have shifted eastwards since the Kyoto protocol – but that is partly because the west increasingly imports its manufactured goods.
的确，自从东京协定书签订后，排放量的分布向东移动了，但那在一定程度上是由于西部增加了从东部的商品输入。
5·The ancient Greeks and early originators of organized education in the west recognized that true education was ultimately about self-knowledge, or to "know thyself."
古希腊人和西方早期的组织教育创始人认识到真正的教育是最终实现自我认知或者说认识自己。
6·True, it sits at a railway crossroads between the main north-south and east-west lines, a major asset in a country where most goods still are moved by train.
的确有可能，因为这座城市位于南北和东西铁路主干线交界的地方，对于一个大多数货物都用火车运载的国家来说，这是一个主要的财富。
7·The world is watching, and technology is connecting, and the West is sending what signals it can, but in the end that is true.
世界在注视着，科技在连线，西方国家也在尽可能地发送出信号，但是，最终这还是成为现实。
8·That may also be true in North West Leicestershire.
在西北莱斯特可能也是如此。
9·Lifestyle: This West African country has been described as a "parody of an oil kleptocracy," and that's certainly true of the jet-setting life of its ruling family..
生活方式：这个西非国家被描述成“处于近乎石油海盗的统治之下”，而用来描述这个统治家族实在再好不过。
10·The true plot in this drama, in my view, is the gradual dissolution of 'the West' as both a philosophic notion and a trans-Atlantic alliance.
在我看来，这场戏剧性事件的真正阴谋在于逐步分解“西方”（“西方”既是一个哲学概念，也是一个跨越大西洋的联盟）。