"As a mother my heart went out to all of them. I cannot imagine what it would feel like to know that your child was in prison, for now 100 days, with very little contact between you and them.

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So you can see why it would be very natural for all sorts of ties to unite these colony and mother city.

因此你们就能理解,是什么把殖民地和母邦自然地联系在一起

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And, if you skip over to 215, this image comes back of this mother: "All cars had disappeared except his station wagon. His pregnant young wife was now getting into it with her baby and the other more or less canceled child."

还有，如果你翻到215页，这个妈妈的形象会再次出现：,“所有的车都不见了，只剩下他的小汽车，他,他怀孕的妻子正抱着婴儿上车，那个惹是生非的小男孩,也上去了“

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First of all, it was normal for the apoikia to turn to the mother city for help, and it was normal for the mother city to be inclined to help if they could do it.

首先,迁徙地,向它的母邦求助很正常,而且,母城能力允许的条件下,给予援助也很正常

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