I see women who give up on housekeeping altogether and let their house go to ruin and become vagrants.

我看到女人们一起停止干家务,让房子变成废墟，然后无家可归。

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In the Ancient Near East, destroyed cities tended to be leveled, and then a new city would just be built on top of the ruins, Tell Dor each one of those is called a tell These are mounds which represent the successive layers of destroyed and rebuilt cities.

在古代近东地区，被摧毁的城市一般较平坦，那么新城就可以建于废墟之上，这些土丘被称作“退尔“你们也许听过,这些就是小土丘,它们代表着一层层被摧毁又重建的城市。

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