So fruitful is their land that they are spared the evil necessity of traveling on ships and there you have an interesting point about the Greeks.

他们的土地丰饶,这一切让他们远离了航行的厄运,这时你会发现关于希腊很有趣的一点

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And in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, that's how we say it.

在1492年，哥伦布在蓝色的海洋中航行，我们就是这样说的。

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He's interested in sailing and learns about sailing on lakes, and ponds, and rivers.

他喜欢航海,并在湖泊,池塘,河流里学习航行

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The Phocaeans chose instead to take their city,which is to say, all the people in the city, put them on ships, sailed to the far west,and organized a new city out there.

而福西亚人选择,不是带上整座城市,而是带上所有的人民,将他们放到船上,航行到遥远的西方,并在那里建了个新城

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Hesiod is not alone in saying, for God's sake try not to take a voyage at sea because your chances of coming back are really bad, which was a reality to a degree.

赫西奥德不是唯一一个说,看在上帝的份上不要试图在海上航行,因为你几乎不可能返航,在某种程度上这是实话

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