Their aim was to create a prison city in the sky.

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Let us create a city in speech.

让我们在会话中创造一座城。

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First comes the family, then an association of families in a tribe, then a further association in a village, and then you might say an association of villages that create a polis or a city.

首先是家庭，然后是众多家庭的结合形成部落，再扩大形成村庄，然后是村庄的结合,创造出了城邦或城市。

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