The South as an idea, the South and its distinctiveness was very much there even in the Colonial Period.

南方作为一个概念,指南方地区以及其特点,早在殖民时期就已经存在

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The South, of course, is many, many, many things and many, many, many peoples.

南方地区,当然,代表了许许多多的事和许许多多的人

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Perhaps only those of you who might come from a small town in the south or from certain areas of Brooklyn would understand something about the supreme value of piety as a way of life.

也许只有那些,来自南方小镇,或布鲁克林部份地区的人,才能了解,生活方式中,敬神的至高价值。

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The railroad had a lot to do, too, of course, with linking northeast with northwest, which has a lot to do with a certain sense of economic isolation that set in in the South, to some extent.

铁路也连接了,美国东北和西北地区,在一定程度上,它和当时南方,某种意义上的经济孤立脱不了干系

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