Of course, with cities we typically find a whole association of cultural characteristics, which we deem civilization.

当然,我们总能从城市中找到一系列,独具代表性的文化特征,我们将其界定义为文明

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It's not just an accident that this reveals the characteristic of each one of these cultures.

这并非是个意外,这揭示了这两种文化各自的特征

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These are linguistic terms. But of course, the people who spoke them, especially in the early years, tended to be part of a relatively narrow collection of people, who intermarried with each other chiefly, and therefore developed common cultural characteristics.

这时的希腊语主要是一些语意项,不过当然,那些讲希腊语的人,特别是在早期,是一个相对小范围的人群,他们主要在族群内部通婚,由此,发展出相近的文化特征

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