So, the citadel and the farmland surrounding it, make up fundamentally the unit which is the Mycenaean kingdom.

因此,以城堡和周围的农田为根基,组成了称为迈锡尼帝国的文明

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There is surrounding farmland going as far,typically, as there is either a natural or an artificial frontier.

周围环绕着农田,这些农田一般会延伸至一个自然边界,或者一个人工边界为止

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But the polis also included the surrounding farmland, and the villages.

一座希腊城市还包括周边的农田村庄。

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This means that all the area surrounding that Fairview Gardens was mainly farmland back in the 1950s, all growing food, probably a fair amount of it being eaten locally by people.

美景花园的整个周边地区,在上世纪50年代基本上都是耕地,都长着农作物,其中很大一部分被当地人消费掉

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I suppose the most widely cited reason is simply the desire to acquire farmland.

大概最显而易见的原因就是,古希腊人需要更多的土地

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These were not defended. Your farmland was not defended.

没有防御工事,你的农场都是不设防的

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And why should there be a shortage of farmland?

但是为什么当时的耕地会短缺呢

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They tended,in general, not to have as much farmland as the places that I have described as not being colonizers, who may not have felt the pressures of land hunger, which was so important in motivating colonization.

这些城市也许,大体上,并没有像未进行殖民的城市,那样多的农田,未进行殖民的城市没有土地匮乏的问题,而这正是殖民的一个重要动机

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