"The most important motivating thing for us was to perpetuate the memory of these great men who are sadly dying away before our very eyes,"

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We solved that by focusing a great deal on motivating the students. Why?

我们通过激发学生,解决该问题，为什么呢？

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This goes beyond the simple goldsmith banker story that I was motivating initially.

我在前面讲了一个金匠银行家的故事,现在就没那么简单了

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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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