Cities like Gdansk, which we tend to forget about, unfortunately, which is a very important port then and still now.

像格达斯克这样的城市,也就渐渐淡出了人们的视野,而其实,它在当时和现在都仍是,非常重要的港口

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Comes to mind, what happened, even foot-binding, that was something very common practice, basically erased within a generation.

突然想到了缠足这件事，这曾经是很常见的事情，而随着时代的变迁，它也已经淡出历史了。

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