You would also engage in sports together, and you would develop a camaraderie because you were expected then to be the fighting force for your city, your city-state.

一起参加体育运动，培养友谊,因为他们将成为这座城市，这座城邦的，主要战斗力。

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I think New York is one of them. Um, probably most major cities - New York, Washington D.C.,

我想纽约市就有许多律师事务所。应该大部分主要的城市都有吧，像纽约、华盛顿，

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Bishops at this time,especially of major cities, would sometimes send around what we call a paschal letter, an Easter letter. In which they'd give instructions or different kinds of things to their churches.

当时的主教，特别是主要城市的主教，会发出所谓的复活节书信，信里写着给其他教会的指示,或者其他事情。

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Other cities became major ports or places of deportation, for the domestic slave trade.

另一些城市则成为了国内奴隶贸易的,主要港口和奴隶被驱逐出境的地区

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Yet despite his awareness of the importance of commerce and the importance of property the aim of the city he tells us is not wealth is not the production of wealth.

他虽然注意到,商业与财产的重要性,但城市存在的主要目的,如他说到,并非财富,并非创造财富。

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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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