我们走遍了西班牙的城镇和村庄。

We visited towns and villages all over Spain.

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那条河决堤并淹没了附近的城镇。

The river burst its banks and flooded nearby towns.

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地震将整座整座的城镇掀到悬崖之下。

The earthquake plunged entire towns over the edge of the cliffs.

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So, what happens with municipal privileges, towns that had municipal privileges, these are eroded and then virtually eliminated by powerful potentates.

地方特权怎么样了,拥有地方特权的城镇又发生了什么,绝对统治者削弱并最终废除了地方特权

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In the case of France again, they are the work of a brilliant military engineer called Vauban, v-a-u-b-a-n.

例如法国,在佩皮尼昂 里尔 蒙梅迪等地方,这样的要塞城镇随处可见

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Excavations at Jericho and Ai indicate that both of these towns were ; laid waste at least 200 years before the probable time of Joshua; so there weren't even any walls in Jericho at the time of Joshua.

耶利哥和艾城的挖掘都显示这两个城镇,都在约书亚前200年就已被毁损;,因此在约书亚时期，耶利哥根本就没有城墙。

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