And what is true of individuals is also true for collective entities, collective nouns like states and cities.

适用于个人的真理,也同样适用于集体的实体，集体的名词，像是城与邦。

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and you've got other bigger cities like Birmingham and Manchester.

这里还有其他更大的城市，比如伯明翰和曼彻斯特。

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So, if you take a little country like Scotland, Edinburgh and Glasgow are two major cities.

再说说像苏格兰这样的小国家,爱丁堡和格拉斯哥是它两个主要的城市

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Then you could take other places, like Italy and smaller cities.

你可以再看看其他地方,像意大利或者其他小点的城市

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But, part of the reason I think is, globalization is creating a global culture and the excitement and enthusiasm that we once saw in isolated cities, like Los Angeles, are spreading out and are seen more and more around the world.

不过,我认为原因之一是,全球化塑造了全球性的文化,原来只存在于单个城市,例如洛杉矶,的狂热与激情,扩散到了全世界各地

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I'm not a professor of architecture, but it's obvious this is northern European architecture that you can see in northern France, cities like Arras and other places, or Charleville-Mezieres in the Ardennes.

我虽然并不是个建筑学教授,但这很明显是典型的北欧建筑,你能在法国北部看到,像阿拉斯之类的地方,或是阿登省的沙勒维尔-梅济耶尔也可以

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