It's peaceful.

那里非常和平

Fascinating, you listen to NPR.

真是大开眼界 你还收听国家公共电台

Judea was a kind of insignificant backwater.

犹太就是无关紧要的死水一潭

and Jerusalem was not that terribly important.

耶路撒冷也不是那么的重要

terribly important,

相当重要

than the kind of command economy that was Madrid.

马德里这个所谓的经济中心更为重要

trace back perhaps 800, 1,000, 1,200 years.

在这期间它们有着突飞猛进的发展

less developed in capital intensive agriculture,

就已经在这片土地上创造了经济价值

to protest against the mother country.

向宗主国抗议的方法

But in the middle of all this,

在这个过程中

This, too, is part of social imperialism and is part of

这也是社会帝国主义的一部分

That it's the final stage of capitalism.

那是资本主义最后的阶段