So fruitful is their land that they are spared the evil necessity of traveling on ships and there you have an interesting point about the Greeks.

他们的土地丰饶,这一切让他们远离了航行的厄运,这时你会发现关于希腊很有趣的一点

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You will find very rare of the case of a Greek city, which is founded away from the sea; they always wanted to be close to the sea for varieties of reasons.

你会发现希腊城市中很少见的现象,那就是它们远离大海,诸多的原因致使希腊人,愿意把城市建设在离海近的地方

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