But this was Kandahar City, a sprawling desert entrepot of 800,000 people in the middle of a war, in southern Afghanistan.

可这毕竟是坎大哈市。这座进出口贸易城市坐落在阿富汗南部，周围是一片广阔沙漠，80万人口，常年战火不断。

Zanzibar became an entrepot for dates, cloves, carpets, mangrove poles and—not least—slaves.

桑给巴尔成为椰枣、丁香、地毯、红树林杆和——尤其是——奴隶的转口港。

The situation of all the three is extremely advantageous, and naturally fits them to be the entrepots of a great part of the goods destined for the consumption of distant places.

三者的地位都极为有利，自然适合作为大部分远方消费货物的转运站。

Rouen is necessarily the entrepot of almost all the goods which are brought either from foreign countries, or from the maritime provinces of France, for the consumption of the great city of Paris.

鲁昂必然是几乎所有来自外国或法国沿海省份的货物的转运点， 供大城市巴黎消费。