East Meets West: How the Brain Unites Us All

1、  For a start, the affect how people categorize objects, with EastAsians tending to group things according to how they relate to each other andAmericans tending to rely on shared features.

首先，人们如何分类物体的情绪，即东亚人趋向于根据事物之间的相关性分类事物

         美国人则依据共有的特征。

2、  Americans are more likely to explain murders and sports events byinvoking the traits and abilities of individuals, while Chinese intend to referto historic factors.

    美国人更愿意通过援引特征和个人的能力讲解谋杀和体育活动，而中国人倾向于归因历史因素。

3、  Chinese people are happier with contradictions and try to find amiddle ground between two opposing positions, while Americans are more inclinedto reject one proposition for the other.

    中国人更高兴于矛盾并且尝试在相反的状态中找到中间状态，而美国人更倾向于为一个建议而拒绝另一个建议。

4、  Westerners appear to perceive the world in an analytic way,narrowing their focus onto prominent objects, lumping them into categories andexamining them through logic.

    西方人似乎通过分解的方式理解世界，限定他们的焦点到突出的目标，归类他们成不同种类并且使用逻辑审查他们。

5、  That might explain why many psychologists have been happy to goalong with it. However, recently it has become apparent that the East-Westdichotomy is not as clear-cut as this.

    那可能解释为什么许多心理学家已经乐意于赞同它。然而，最近东西方对分法不像这种方法鲜明已经变得明显。