In our Flashcard series, The Atlantic explains ideas you may read about but never see spelled out.

在我们“识字卡”系列中，《大西洋》月刊解释了一些你可能读过但从未看过有人详细说明过的概念。

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The United States of America may have started as a series of ports and cities along the Atlantic Ocean, but for generations we have also been a nation of the Pacific.

美利坚合众国虽然发源于大西洋沿岸的一系列港口和城市，但我们世世代代始终是一个太平洋国家。

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The animation shows a series of thunderstorms coalescing as the fast-moving front travels from the Appalachians toward the Mid-Atlantic.

该动画展现了一连串的雷暴聚结由阿帕拉契山脉向大西洋中部快速移动。

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Furthermore, multi-decade time series, including the Hawaii Ocean Time Series, the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series, and the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, also showed increasing phytoplankton biomass during the past 20-to-50 years.

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The first series, recently on Sky Atlantic, showed two worlds, the dark north, filmed in Northern Ireland, and the sunny south, filmed in Malta.

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Even the Sixers the one Atlantic team the Knicks clinched the season series against by beating three out of four times blew out New York in a late January meeting between the clubs.

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