But Athens was also something completely unprecedented in the world it was a democracy.

但雅典也是,世界上史无前例的城邦。

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It seems to me to be evident that whatever it's other characteristics, the West has created institutions of government and law that provide unprecedented freedom for its people.

在我看来,很显然,就算各国国情千秋百态,但西方建立的政府机构与设立的法律制度,都给与其治下的公民史无前例的自由

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It had established Athens as a mighty and redoubtable naval power and it created an unprecedented level of artistic and cultural life even today known simply as Periclean Athens.

建立了雅典强大且令人敬畏的海军强权,而且催生了史无前例的,璀璨艺术与文化生活,甚至今日仍以伯里克利斯的雅典闻名。

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We don't have data on individual city basis but it really looks like the housing collapse price collapse--that we're going through now is on a magnitude not paralleled since The Great Depression of the 1930s.

我们没有每一个城市的数据,但是看起来似乎房价真的崩塌了,价格崩塌-现在我们正经历着,自从三十年代大萧条以来,史无前例的衰退。

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