The Octopus: A Story of California is a 1901 novel by Frank Norris and was meant to be the first part of an uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat.

《章鱼：加利福尼亚的故事》气势宏大、生活气息浓厚，矛盾冲突尖锐，是一部真正的美国西部社会斗争史，也是第一部以经济斗争为主题的美国小说。

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It is the story of an American travelling to a strange land, and of the people he meets on his way: Rustam, his translator, a lovely 24-year-old who picked up his colorful English in California, Oleg and Natasha, his hosts in Tashkent, and a string of foreign aid workers.

这是一个美国人只身前往陌生土地的故事，这也是他途中遇到的人的故事：他的翻译鲁斯塔姆，一个可爱的24岁年轻人，在加利福尼亚学会了有趣的英语；奥列格和娜塔莎，他在塔什干的借宿人家；以及许多外国救援人员。

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Two women recounted the story of their first lie to Bella DePaulo, a psychologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara who studies deception.

两名妇女对研究欺骗的加州圣巴巴拉大学的心理学家贝拉德保罗讲述了她们撒的第一个谎言的故事。

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Jackson bought a huge property in California which he called "Neverland" after the children's story of Peter Pan.

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Bradley told me the story of a Hispanic California state senator whose grandfather, an L.A. resident for a half-century, was afraid to leave the house without a passport after former Governor Pete Wilson started dumping on immigrants.

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With this story in mind, the State of California requires its political subdivisions to maintain a revenue reserve fund.

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When the sun sets tonight off the coast of California and we lay to rest our 40th president, a great American story will close.

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