来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第4集 第4集》
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right smack in the middle of a plain,在一个平原的中心扎根 -
which is a good place for farming,因为那里适合农业生产 -
with a great high acropolis available.然后建起一座高大的卫城 -
Even the characteristic thing in a polis, the agora,即使像"市" 就是集市 -
the marketplace,which这样城邦的标志性建筑 -
also becomes the civic center of these towns,和城邦的中心建筑 -
even these grew up later than the polis.也是在城邦建立之后才开始发端的 -
They show up a century or more typically大多都是在我们知道 -
after we know that there is a polis there,这里有座城邦之后的一个世纪左右才建立起来 -
and the agora comes about in a gradual way.而且集市的发展是循序渐进的 -
I think you should never imagine in these real old poleis我想你一定难以想象这些城邦 -
that got the thing started,在刚开始建立的时候