Attitudes towards drinking and smoking in the U.S. are, in some ways, very different from those in Asia.
在对烟酒所采取的态度上,美国和亚洲在某些方面是非常不一样的。
It's as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.
从某种意义上讲,他们似乎是宇宙人,同我们这些凡夫俗子形成了强烈而鲜明的对照。