These interesting buildings are helping to show what skyscrapers and our cities might look like in the future.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

In Italy, some of these cities were able to gain control of the surrounding country and to become city states, resembling those of the ancient Greeks.

在意大利,一些城市还潜移默化地,影响了周边的区域,形成了城邦,这与古希腊的城市情况非常相似

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But these cities were very active in colonizing in a variety of directions.

但这些城市向周围各个方向,积极进行殖民活动

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Consumers also want computers and cell phones, but in cities, these are no longer status symbols.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Then it looks like there came a moment where there was a final blow, where whatever was attempting to overthrow these cities and this civilization succeeded, but it was not the same in every place.

接着,看起来最后一击的时刻来临了,颠覆这些城市和这个文明的企图,最终还是成功了,这在各地情况都不尽相同

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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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