At this stage of the journey, the migrants are still relatively close to their homes in Central America,and have yet to face the most dangerous parts of the trip.

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Or sometimes the Romans liked to take a big theater and fill the central part of the theater, the cavea, with water and then stage naval battles and that kind of thing.

有时候罗马人也喜欢利用大剧院,在大剧院的中心和兽笼，注满水，上演大海战之类的。

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