在很多地方，尤其是西部，让一个城镇死亡是很有意义的。

With so much space, especially in the West, it can make sense to let a town die.

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在希拉河流域尤其如此，希拉河的水被输送到许多地方用来灌溉肥沃的平原，养育众多的城镇。

This was particularly true in the Gila River valley, where the Gila River was diverted in many places to irrigate large fertile plains and numerous compact towns.

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数不清的城镇广场和小型公园正在建造或被美化，甚至是在如同底特律这样的砂质化的地方也是如此。

Innumerable town squares and pocket parks have been created or beautified, even in gritty places like Detroit.

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In the case of France again, they are the work of a brilliant military engineer called Vauban, v-a-u-b-a-n.

例如法国,在佩皮尼昂 里尔 蒙梅迪等地方,这样的要塞城镇随处可见

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Into some of that space, towns and cities reappeared and with them new supports for freedom.

在那些地方,城市和城镇得以再度兴起,自由的思想也得到进一步发展

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