The British paid for a costly defence system including the Citadels at Halifax and Quebec City, the naval drydock at Halifax, Fort Henry at Kingston, and the Rideau Canal between Kingston and Ottawa.

英国支付了昂贵的防御系统，包括在哈利法克斯和魁北克市城堡，海军船坞在Halifax哈利法克斯，Kingston金士顿的亨利城堡和金斯敦与渥太华之间的里多运河。

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In the traditional citadels of Christendom, grey Gothic cathedrals stand empty, mute witnesses to a rejected faith.

在传统基督教的大本营，灰白色的哥特式大教堂寂寥的屹立着，默默地看着被背弃的信仰。

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The scrap-wood citadels of my childhood (above, left) lacked a certain sophistication that comes with actual planning.

这是我童年时期由废旧木头所搭建的的堡垒，没有深思熟虑的构思计划建造而成，几乎可以说它是一件随性之作。

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Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.

勇敢是我与生俱来的神秘，智慧是我熟稔于心的能力：,因为错过撤退的行军队列,没能和他们一起进入空虚的没有围墙的大本营。

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Like errant knights we dismount our Jeep and marvel at the citadels and castles blazing against the blue-marguerite sky.

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The attacks I believe were as much assaults on what they share, the idea of the secular, cosmopolitan, free and tolerant city, as they were on the citadels of American monied and military power.

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