几个世纪以来，日本作家，诗人和艺术家们都在思考这种不安定的岛屿生活。

For centuries, Japanese authors, poets, and artists have mulled over the existential instability of their island life.

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自西元前31年开始是著名的和平时期，伟大帝国的黄金时期，罗马及各殖民地享受长达两世纪光荣的和平安定时期。

Beginning in 31 BC, the famous Pax Romana was a period of splendid prosperity for the great empire. Two glorious centuries of peace and order blessed Rome and her colonies.

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There is an expansion of the Greek world already by the tenth century, and these folks are now settled down, so that some of these cities are in fact among the most important cities sending out colonies of their own.

希腊世界不停地扩展,一直到10世纪,那些逃亡者才安定下来,因此,这当中的,一些重要城市都拥有自己隶属的殖民地

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