It lies between sand hills covered with pine trees and rich farmland near the Mississippi River.

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And, yet, think about the qualities of sound that are so different between "across the lines of straighter darker trees" and "I like to think some boy's been swinging them."

想想这音律的特别之处,这两句有很大的区别,“穿过排列成行的挺直黑黑的树“,我总以为有个孩子把白杨“荡“弯了“

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The writer is the first man to map it and to name the natural objects it contains. Those berries are edible. That speckled creature that bolted across my path might be tamed. That lake between those trees will be called Lake Opal or, more artistically, Dishwater Lake.

而作者本人则是第一个为它绘制地图并为每一个自然事物,命名的人，这种讲过是可以吃的，那只身上带斑点,从我身边窜过，的动物也许能被驯服，树木之间的那个湖泊,可以叫“蛋白石湖“，或者，更艺术的，“洗盘水湖“

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