It is a severe punishment to be exiled from one's native land.

从本国流放异国他乡是一种严厉的惩罚。

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Analyzing it from traditional culture standpoint, the cultural tradition of being attached to one's native land builds up this homesick mode and make people unwilling to leave their hometown.

从传统文化的角度来分析，安土重迁的文化传统为文人们铸就了故土难离的恋乡情感模式。

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Hebrew lettering was stenciled on the butcher shop window and engraved on the lintels of the small neighborhood synagogues, but nowhere else (other than at the cemetery) did one's eye chance to land on the alphabet of the prayer book rather than on the familiar letters of the native tongue employed all the time by practically everyone for every conceivable purpose, high or low.

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