So basically, we're stuck with this verbal agreement and we both have an incentive to cheat and produce more whatever it is, sugar water.

但不管怎样,在这个口头协议不起作用,我们都有违约,生产更多这种糖水的动机

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If you're expecting to be attacked and besieged, as all these citadels would be by an invader, you would want more than anything else a water supply, but they didn't necessarily have good water supplies in such circumstances.

如果你预料到会被攻击和包围,就像这些城邦面对侵略者那样,你最关心的一定是水源供应,但在这样的情况下,他们未必能找到充足的水源

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