And there was the confluence of religion and business and science and all of these things that changed dramatically at about that period of time.

当时宗教，商业,科学等等都有了交叉点,它们在那个时期发生了巨大的转变。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Unlike the ancient near eastern cities, these towns do not grow up around a temple or a marketplace, confluence of rivers as they do in medieval Europe.

和古代近东的城市不同,这些城邦不以庙宇或集市为中心来扩展的,也不像中世纪的欧洲那样以河流交汇点为中心

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But he got set up by somebody, by a French person--more about this in a minute, and he was supposed to meet somebody on a bridge overlooking the Saone River Lyon was at the confluence of the Rhone and the Saone.

但他被人设计了,被一个法国人--马上再说这个,他本来要和一个人在桥上见面,桥横跨在索恩河上,里昂在罗讷河和索恩河的交汇处

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