Thus, the city structure itself, the way the city was built with houses along the canals reflects the economic primacy of global trade.

因此城市按照这个特点形成了自身的布局,沿着水道而修筑房屋的建筑特色,这也印证了其全球贸易中心的地位

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Richmond, Virginia, for example, became a huge slave-trading center by the 1840s and 1850s.

比如里士满和弗吉尼亚,在十九世纪四十年代和五十年代,它们成为了巨大的奴隶贸易中心

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And not only are the Greeks as a whole cut off from the rest of the world, but Greece itself, which used to be an area of easy exchange, where people could go from one place to the other and did, localism now comes into the picture.

而且不仅是希腊人作为一个群体被排除在,世界之外,希腊内部也出现了问题,它曾经也是一个贸易中心,人们从其他地方赶来又走向另一个地方,而此时,地方主义开始兴起

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