So, defeated political groups might well -or individuals who were the heads of those groups might decide they have to get out of town.
所以,政治上失利的一方,或者这方的领导人,会做出决定,离开城市
But you know when he's out of town, he doesn't call at all.
但是你知道,就连平时他出城的时候,都不会打个电话。
You see it again on 209, a little later in this scene. His suspicion is aroused when a car pulls up next to them as they're heading out of town.
在209页,这个场景的后半部分,你将再次看见他产生怀疑,当时他们正走在去镇里的路上,一辆车停在他们旁边。
The goldsmith in your town writes out a note saying, I will pay to the bearer of this note so much gold, and then the bearer could be anyone.
你居住城镇的金匠写下票据并承诺,我会付给持票人这么多数量的金子,任何人都可以是持票人
There was a case of a very minor insurrection in an obscure Italian city in 1848 where the people of the town literally locked the ruler out of the town-- and Italy remains decentralized.
在1848年,有一场小规模叛乱,发生在一个意大利的小城里,人们把统治者锁在城门外面,如今意大利仍然是四分五裂的
There were some twelve to fifteen different widths of railroads in the Northern states alone by the 1850s, and you could go into one town on a gauge, i don't know, three feet wide but on the other side of town it would come out four feet wide.
在五十年代,单就北方州的铁道,就有十二到十五种不同的轨距,你可能在一条三英尺宽的铁道上进镇,但在另一边出镇时,它变成四英尺宽了
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