So this city is not a city in New England, it's a city in the Midwest, where everything's flat and the roads just go completely straight.

所以这不是在新英格兰的城市,它是美国中西部的城市,那里都是平坦而笔直的路

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These beliefs form something like a kind of national creed you might say American national creed what it means to be an American and not someone else.

这些信念形成类似,国家纲领的东西，你可以说,像是美国的国家纲领,这意味着身为美国人，而不是其它国人。

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