Okay, so this gives you some idea of the range of possible relationships between colony and mother city.

好了,那么这就使你们,对殖民地与母邦之间的关系,有了一定的了解

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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

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He saw the sad nightingales nodding on the branches and they reminded him of his mother. A gray shroud fell over the city.

他见过悲伤的夜莺在枝头打盹,这些让他想起他的母亲，灰色的寿衣落在这城市。

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From the earliest times, Corcyra does not get along with the mother city of Corinth.

最早的时候克基拉与,母邦科林斯的关系并不好

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The question is who gave permission for a colony to go in the mother city.

你问的是,在母邦是谁批准建立殖民地的

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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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We do know, again, Thucydides is our source, that it was customary for colonies to send representatives back to the mother city for the religious observations that were common to them all, so that those create good feelings.

修昔底德的著作里提到,殖民地派遣代表回母邦,参与宗教仪式是他们的习俗,所以这使彼此间有了好感

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From where we sit, it looks like the Corinthians were making a gesture of solidarity, the kind of thing you would expect a mother city to do, not to ignore its apoikia when it was in trouble.

在我们看来,科林斯人似乎做出了友好团结之态,这是我们期望母邦会做的,没有对困境中的迁徙地置之不顾

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He will have to do the recruiting of people that come with him on the colony; he will have to do the constitutional discussion and a political discussion to gain the sanction from the mother city to allow him to do everything he knows.

他需要招募很多人手,来帮助他去建立殖民地,他的提案必须通过立宪讨论和政治会议,这样母邦才能许可,他才能建立殖民地

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