The Harpers, and Aunt Polly's family, were being put into mourning, with great grief and many tears.

哈帕一家和波莉姨妈一家都沉浸在悲痛之中，悲痛得流了许多眼泪。

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The Thatchers were there, the Harpers, the Rogerses, Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, the minister, the editor, and a great many more, and all dressed in their best.

他们是撒切尔一家、哈帕一家、罗杰斯一家、波莉姨妈、希德、玛丽、牧师、报馆撰稿人，还有很多别的人，大家全都衣着考究。

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When the town was part of Virginia, it was the site of the Harpers Ferry Raid, one of the major incidents precipitating the American Civil war, and of several battles of the war.

当该镇还是弗吉尼亚州的一部分时，发生了哈普斯渡口袭击案，那是美国内战的一个主要导火索，而后在那里发生了几次战役。

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Last month,the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and other partners held many programs observing the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of John Brown's raid.

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I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: and no man could learn that song.

我听到竖琴师用他们的竖琴反复演奏着：，…,没人能学会那首歌。

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He says Harpers Ferry was a noisy,dirty, polluted industrial city in what was then Virginia, the largest slave state in America.

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The exhibit brings these characters to life: Brown led the militant abolitionist raid on the Harpers Ferry Arsenal in October 1859.

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The Harpers Ferry and the destroyer USS Mustin were expected to start their transit toward Myanmar on Friday, according to a defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.

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While Roosevelt considered himself a progressive, the associations with the raider of Harpers Ferry stained the day in radical tones that would not soon fade.

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