This nest is made up of thousands of pieces of bamboo tied together with the kind of brightly colored rope usually used by mountain climbers.

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Right, we see in this passage something that reveals so much about what the Greek values were and you'll see how closely they were tied up with the polis and the primacy of the polis in their lives.

对的,我们在这篇文章中,看到了很多揭示希腊人价值观的东西,你们能看到他们和城邦以及城邦在他们,生命中至高无上的地位之间有多么紧密相连

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In Greece you have a lot of war and you have a lot of freedom, and all of that is tied up, I think very much, with the development of this very special thing called the polis.

在希腊,存在着无数战争,但同时也存在着无限自由,我认为,战争和自由之所以,紧密相连,密不可分,是因为城邦这一特殊事物的维系

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选