Another is that we learned a lot of things about engineering of public systems, like water supplies.

另一个原因是,我们懂得了有关公共系统知识,比如供水系统

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If you're expecting to be attacked and besieged, as all these citadels would be by an invader, you would want more than anything else a water supply, but they didn't necessarily have good water supplies in such circumstances.

如果你预料到会被攻击和包围,就像这些城邦面对侵略者那样,你最关心的一定是水源供应,但在这样的情况下,他们未必能找到充足的水源

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