Thus, the city structure itself, the way the city was built with houses along the canals reflects the economic primacy of global trade.

因此城市按照这个特点形成了自身的布局,沿着水道而修筑房屋的建筑特色,这也印证了其全球贸易中心的地位

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The medical center is a really gorgeous architectural building.

医学中心是个非常华丽的建筑。

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Even the characteristic thing in a polis, the agora, the marketplace,which also becomes the civic center of these towns, even these grew up later than the polis.

即使像"市",就是集市,这样城邦的标志性建筑,和城邦的中心建筑,也是在城邦建立之后才开始发端的

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