So within this relatively tiny area there are radically diverse regions, and this fact held important implications for Israel's history.

因此在这狭小地区内实际上有不同的地域，而这个事实对以色列历史有重要影响。

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This helps us to explain, for instance, why in so many cultures the concept of saving face is so important, even if to most modern Americans it seems relatively trivial.

这就很容易解释，为什么很多文化里的面子问题,会变得那么重要，而对许多美国人来说,那都是小事一桩。

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Because we hold relatively stable, relatively well-diversified portfolios, security selection turns out not to be an important determinant of returns for most investors and market timing turns out not to be an important determinant of returns.

因为持有相对稳定,和相对分散的投资组合,证券选择不再是,决定投资者回报率的重要因素,而市场时机选择,也不会成为决定回报率的重要因素

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One was Calkis and the other one was Eretria and we hear about them relatively early in the eighth century, already being very important, very strong and fighting each other in a famous war that they fought.

卡尔基斯和埃雷特里亚,人们早在八世纪就对它们有所耳闻,那时,它们很重要,很强大,在一场著名的战争中相互敌对

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