自从殖民地建立以来，费城一直是一个重要的城市。

The city of Philadelphia has been an important city since the colony was founded.

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马查拉是一个重要的城市，也是农业中心。

Machala is an important city and agricultural center.

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这座城墙围绕的城市是一个重要的旅游胜地。

The walled city is an important tourist attraction.

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Another key event in the making of modernism is the great migration of African-Americans from the rural south to the urban north.

现代创作的另一个重要事件,是非裔美籍从南部乡下,往城市化的北部的大移民。

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Or, if you think of Berlin, you think of Germany, a unified Germany or in the Federal Republic before German unification, Berlin was terribly important.

或者,想想柏林,想想德国的情况,无论在统一的德国还是统一前的联邦德国,柏林都是一个十分重要的城市

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