For example, in the 1800s a monstrous earthquake changed the course of the Mississippi River, a large river flowing in the central part of the United States of America.

例如，在19世纪，一场大地震改变了密西西比河，一条流经美国中部的大河的流向。

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The vast grasslands of the High Plains in the central United States were settled by farmers and ranchers in the 1880s.

在19世纪80年代，美国中部的高地平原大草原是由农民和牧场主开垦的。

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Looking at these maps, though, you can imagine how surprising that conclusion might have been to many residents of Mexico, the United States, central Canada, Sweden, or northern Russia.

看到这几张气温图，你可以想像这个结论对墨西哥，美国，加拿大中部，瑞典，还有俄罗斯北部的许多居民来说有多不可思议。

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The National Weather Service said there were ten reports of tornadoes across the central and southern Plains states last Thursday.

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In the United States we did not have a central bank until 1913 when we created the Federal Reserve System.

在美国，我们直到1913年,创立了联邦储备银行制度。

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In the United States, the central bank is called the Federal Reserve.

在美国,我们把中央银行叫做美联储

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There are unnerving parallels with the farm crisis of the mid-1980s, which gutted communities throughout the central states.

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Elections are scheduled later this year in the central states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan in the west and in the capital, New Delhi.

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State elections are scheduled later this year in the central states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan in the west and in the capital, New Delhi.

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