布莱恩特说：“我父母经常与邻居分享美食，并用便条表达对彼此的谢意——他们之间的感情深厚，也深深眷恋着这片土地，只是他们从来没有这样说过。”

"My parents have this web of covered dishes and thank you notes -- all of these social ties and ties to the land run really deep, but they would never have called them that." Bryant says.

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Not a tremendous amount of inherent value in this strip of land, but it is important for where you could go by traveling through it.

这小块土地本身并没有重要的价值，但重要的是通过它可以到达的目的地。

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They tended,in general, not to have as much farmland as the places that I have described as not being colonizers, who may not have felt the pressures of land hunger, which was so important in motivating colonization.

这些城市也许,大体上,并没有像未进行殖民的城市,那样多的农田,未进行殖民的城市没有土地匮乏的问题,而这正是殖民的一个重要动机

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