In these days the pre-industrial city in America functioned as a complex and varied organizing element in American life, not as a simple, homogeneous, and static unit.

在这些日子里，美国未工业化的城市在美国人的生活中是一个复杂而多样的组织元素，而不是一个简单的、同质的、静态的单位。

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What was found at Gonur-Depe was amazing: the ruins of a huge palace complex, the foundations of shops and houses, the remains of thick walls and towers that fortified the city.

在戈纳德比的发现是惊人的：一个巨大的宫殿建筑群的废墟、商店和房屋的地基、厚重的墙的遗迹以及用于防护城市的塔楼。

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Correspondents in the city say the raids, one of them in daylight, caused the collapse of sections of the walls around the Bab al-Azizia military complex.

在该市的记者说，其中一次袭击发生在白天，导致阿齐齐亚军事基地周围的部分墙壁倒塌。

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Pyongyang says it may also prevent access into or out of a joint industrial complex in the North Korean city,Kaesong, potentially trapping hundreds of South Korean business managers there.

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The Unification Ministry in Seoul says hundreds of South Korean managers and other workers from the South were allowed to enter the industrial complex in the west coast Kaesong border city,Wednesday.

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Bloomberg is not only the chief executive of a huge and complex city, a job that requires him to stake out positions on issues from crime to education to the environment to immigration to terrorism.

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All modern industries are complex, the North Sea oil industry is complex, the City is complex, the television is complex.

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Now, that corporation is building a new 3, 000-room resort, office and retail complex called City Center and piloting a number of innovative "green" features, including state-of-the-art low-level flush toilets.

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