In the time we're starting this course in the seventeenth century, besides London, which is this gigantic place, the biggest cities in England were Norwich and Exeter, and York in the north.

我们这节课的起始年代,即十七世纪,除了伦敦这个巨型的城市,英国最大的城市是诺里奇和埃克塞特,以及北部的约克

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And there're all these huge chandeliers on the ceiling, that, it's just,

还有那些天花板上的巨型吊灯，真的是

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London, already by the late sixteenth century, one-sixth of all the people, I think this is E.A. Wrigley who pointed this out a long time ago--one-sixth of all the people in England went to London frequently, because London was absolutely gigantic as a city.

伦敦,早在十六世纪后期,六分之一的人口,我想是E.A莱格力很久以前给出的这个数据,他指出,当时有六分之一的英国人,会经常去伦敦,因为伦敦当时是个巨型城市

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