Somebody in one of the old Greek cities has to decide that he wants to go out and establish a colony.

在其中一个古希腊的城市中,突然有个人决定要建立一个殖民地

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It also is possible, again it's just speculation, that population pressure might well be greater in the cities that did the colonizing.

再一次,只是猜测,也很有可能,这些进行殖民的城市,人口压力相对大

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So, that may explain why some of the states did and others did not.

因此,这也许能解释为什么,一些城市进行了殖民,而另一些没有

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Certainly things that have nothing to do with economics really there are politics going on in these states as there always are in any Greek polis.

就是那个和经济没什么关系的词,当时这些殖民地受政治影响,就像古希腊其他城市一样

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But these cities were very active in colonizing in a variety of directions.

但这些城市向周围各个方向,积极进行殖民活动

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Finally, Thebes, the greatest city in Boeotia, also does not colonize.

最后,底比斯,皮奥夏地区最伟大的城市,也未殖民

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They tended,in general, not to have as much farmland as the places that I have described as not being colonizers, who may not have felt the pressures of land hunger, which was so important in motivating colonization.

这些城市也许,大体上,并没有像未进行殖民的城市,那样多的农田,未进行殖民的城市没有土地匮乏的问题,而这正是殖民的一个重要动机

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There is an expansion of the Greek world already by the tenth century, and these folks are now settled down, so that some of these cities are in fact among the most important cities sending out colonies of their own.

希腊世界不停地扩展,一直到10世纪,那些逃亡者才安定下来,因此,这当中的,一些重要城市都拥有自己隶属的殖民地

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Colony is a Latin word ultimately for colonia and the Roman colonies were, first of all,garrisons that they planted in land they had conquered to keep the people quiet.

殖民地是拉丁词Colony的衍生,对于古罗马的殖民地来说,首先,派兵驻守占领的城市,震慑当地民众

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