Since that's all been pushed out of the way by development, that means the food has to get shipped in from larger distances.

之后由于发展建设,耕地都不见了,这意味着食物要从相当遥远的地方运过来

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Generally I can bear who is now Ambassodor said you need to have the engineers following 1 kilometers behind the troops when they entered to this areas to show the people that we were there, we were there to stay. That remains true.

我可以理解现任大使所说的,紧跟着军队之后，我们还需要工程师来建设这个国家,这些工程师进来之后，当地人民就知道我们在这里，我们要留在这里，而这也是事实。

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Sparta starts at an early point, sends out a colony to southern Italy at some time, probably early, they sent out a colony to an island in the Aegean Sea, Melos, and then they stopped and never sent out another colony.

斯巴达要早一些,某一时期在意大利南部建设过殖民地,也许更早的时候,曾在爱琴海上的岛屿米洛斯殖民,然后他们的殖民活动戛然而止,并从未再开始

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