Just so in fact the god seems to me to have set me upon the city as someone of this sort.

依此实据观来,上帝似已选中我,做为与城邦等齐的人。

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But I think this is rather an implausible suggestion because, of course, you could have these glorious views just by going up in the airplane and looking down from the safety of your airplane.

但我认为这是个似是而非的建议,因为，当然，你可能只是坐飞机向上飞,并安全地向下看,就会有这些迷人的视野。

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