Near the plowed fields curved and faded, and the few hogs nosing in the furrows looked like large spotted stones.

颜色褪尽的耕地，一群鼻子拱出皱纹的猪就像大大的,带着斑点的石头。

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Yeah, this is not a bad time for me to remind you that in one of Plato's dialogues, Socrates says the Greeks sit like frogs around a pond and that pond is the Aegean Sea.

下面引用一下,柏拉图记录的一段对话,苏格拉底说希腊地形,就像一群青蛙围着一个池塘,而那池塘就是爱琴海

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