他们总是认为它是个很穷的城市,因为它是一个犯人流放的地方。
They always think that it is a very poor city, as it is a place of exile prisoners.
大部分西班牙人希望看到他们被法庭审判,他们则宁可被流放到加勒比海沿岸的某个地方。
Most Spaniards want to see them in court. They may prefer to be exiled to a beach somewhere in the Caribbean.
批评者责骂说俄国最不需要的就是更多的边疆土地——由戍边卫队和流放人员看守的地方。
Critics railed that the last thing Russia needed was yet more land, secured by garrisons and penal colonies.
这样的名声不仅为外国人知晓,也在俄国人中间流传,如一首写于1825年的诗歌所说:“害怕严冬无边的冰雪,无人来访,这悲惨的地方,这流放者的大监狱。”
As an 1825 poem has it: "Fearing the winters/ Endless and icy/ Nobody will visit/ This wretched country/ This vast prison house for exiles."
原因之一在于,美洲长久以来就是一个流放罪犯易滋生的地方,多年以来,有将近4万多人被流放在此。
One was that America had been a handy place to exile convicts, some 40,000 of them over the years.
原因之一在于,美洲长久以来就是一个流放罪犯易滋生的地方,多年以来,有将近4万多人被流放在此。
One was that America had been a handy place to exile convicts, some 40,000 of them over the years.
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