城邦

So may it be said of the Lacedaemonians, that, with a common staff and a coarse coat, they gained the willing and joyful obedience of Greece, through whose whole extent they suppressed unjust usurpations and despotisms, arbitrated in war, and composed civil dissensions; and this often without so much as taking down one buckler, but barely by sending some one single deputy, to whose direction all at once submitted, like bees swarming and taking their places around their prince.

斯巴达是古希腊最强大的城邦，用普鲁塔克（《名人传·莱库古传》，陆永庭译， pp123）的话说就是：斯巴达仅仅凭着它信使的节杖和使者的大氅，就能使整个希腊心悦诚服、欣然从命；就能推翻各国非法的寡头统治与僭主政体；就能仲裁战争、平息叛乱。常常不必动用一兵一卒，仅仅派出一名使节即行；号令一出，顿时臣服；如同蜂群的首领驾临，群蜂都密集成群地簇拥他一样。

Iran is the main destination for exports from Dubai, with much of the volume hauled by the scores of picturesque dhows that line the city-state's Creek.

伊朗还是迪拜商品的主要进口国，这些货物主要通过城邦之间小溪上排成长队的小帆船来运送。

In the Greco-Persian Wars , the Hellenic city-states formed an alliance and defeated the Persian Empire at the Battle of Plataea , repelling the Persian invasions.

在波希战争中，希腊城邦组成了一个联盟并且在普拉塔亚战役击败了波斯王朝，他们击退了波斯人的入侵。

Pheidon, with his army of well-trained hoplites, marched across the Peloponnesos, secured the Sanctuary for the town of Pisa, and personally presided over the conduct of the games.

借助古奥运会的举办，各城邦之间有了聚集在一起的机会。运动会上，人们可以讨论重大的政治问题，共同庆祝战争的胜利，甚至还结成同盟。

As a typical city-states economies, the expansion of cities already very limited space, coupled with the government is the sole owner of land in the highlands price rate policy, speculators in property prices has repeatedly created district pursued by Hong Kong's once-high living in the world.

作为一个典型的城邦经济体，香港城市扩张的空间本来就非常有限，加上港府又是土地的惟一所有者，在高地价低税率的政策下，房地产价格曾在炒家的追捧下屡创天价，使香港的生活指数一度高居世界前列。

It was built by the grandest Sun King, of the grandest city state, of the grandest civilization of the Americas, the Mayas.

它由史上最显贵的太阳王建造，位于最壮丽的城邦，代表着美洲最伟大的古文明--玛雅。

From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, Italy remained the most influential musical nation of Europe.

这是说，与其说是地区，不如说是国家，义大利半岛分裂为两个地区分别由西班牙和奥国统治，罗马教宗，以及6个较小的独立城邦，他们自己不时的与较大的欧洲势力联盟。

Already by 3000 BC several city-states had been established by Sumerians dark-skinned, non-Semitic people who probably migrated from the east

在公元前3000年前，苏美尔人就建立了好几个城邦国家。他们皮肤黝黑，可能是从东方移民过来的非闪米特人。

In a city state the social organization is not autocratic, because among the same class of townsmen, there is no moral reason why one should be more important than, or superior to, another.

在一个城邦里，社会组织不是独裁的，因为在同一个市民阶级之内，没有任何道德上的理由认为某个人应当比别人重要，或高于别人。

Where the traditional virtue is going was not only one of the fundamental questions of the city-state in Sophists' times but Socrates' question as well.

传统美德向何处去？这是智者时代城邦的根本问题，也是苏格拉底的问题。

Singer Leona Lewis and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page emerged as the bus transformed into a grass-covered carnival float, and the pair combined for a rendition of "Whole Lotta Love".

歌手leona刘易斯和前率领的飞艇的吉他手吉米页出现巴士转化为基层所涵盖的嘉年华花车，和一双合并为一移交&整个lotta爱&。

This is Kate, and that's Erin.

这是凯特，那个是爱朗。