He says what is most important is that cities support the kinds of literacy methods that the study examines.

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In Italy, obviously, Milan and Turin were terribly important cities, and Rome, which is just sort of a sleepy, ecclesiastical capital full of tourists and clergy.

在意大利,最重要的城市,显然就是米兰和都灵,还有罗马,这个城市只是一座,充斥着观光者和神职人员的教会都城

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There were two important cities in the northern part of that island.

在它的北部有两座重要的城市

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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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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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