因此没了书的后半部分，读者就读不到，其比远离南方的旅程，还要意味深长的，成长过程中的感想。

So one thing that readers lost, when they lost the second half of this book, is the sense that maturing, the process of maturing, was more than just the process of leaving the South.

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一旦日食路径远离亚洲大陆，将会沿东南方向朝赤道急剧下降。

Once the eclipse path moves away from the Asian mainland, it drops sharply southeastward toward the equator.

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So one thing that readers lost, when they lost the second half of this book, is the sense that maturing, the process of maturing, was more than just the process of leaving the South.

因此没了书的后半部分，读者就读不到，其比远离南方的旅程，还要意味深长的，成长过程中的感想。

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