The police set up blockades on highways leading out of the city.

警察在城市出口的公路上设下路障。

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We looked out over the city from the heights of Edinburgh Castle.

我们从爱丁堡城堡所在的高处俯视整个城市。

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Being able to get out of the city at the weekend keeps me sane.

要不是能出城过过周末，我简直快憋疯了。

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last week. The band played two sold-out shows at the twenty thousand seat Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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There was a case of a very minor insurrection in an obscure Italian city in 1848 where the people of the town literally locked the ruler out of the town-- and Italy remains decentralized.

在1848年,有一场小规模叛乱,发生在一个意大利的小城里,人们把统治者锁在城门外面,如今意大利仍然是四分五裂的

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How do you get there? You go to go here, here and these could be busy roads, and so parents don't want to do it because of safety reasons, so you see how--when the country used to be laid out in a grid, like say New York City still is today, then people walk to get to places.

那要怎么才能去呢,你得绕道这里,还有那里的繁忙路段,出于安全原因家长们不允许孩子们这么做,可以看到,规划为网格状道路的地区,比如依旧保留了传统规划的纽约,人们出行是靠步行

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As a stressed-out city-dweller, it sure works for me.

BBC: Postcard from Isle of Wight, Great Britain

It stayed that way through extra-time to set up a tense penalty shoot-out which City won 4-2.

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Claiming an unnamed source in the video distribution industry, the rumor suggests a plan to deliver a set-top box with DVR, rolled out on a city-by-city basis as it negotiates channel agreements.

ENGADGET: Intel rumored to launch set-top box, 'virtual cable TV service' at CES