That would have been an understandable position to come to in the fourteenth century, but it would have been wrong.

那可能就是能被14世纪的人们,所理解的解释,但它有可能是错的

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And you might expect it that they would come to speak a pidgin, but they don't.

你可能会以为他们也将学会这种混杂语言,但事实并非如此

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There were some twelve to fifteen different widths of railroads in the Northern states alone by the 1850s, and you could go into one town on a gauge, i don't know, three feet wide but on the other side of town it would come out four feet wide.

在五十年代,单就北方州的铁道,就有十二到十五种不同的轨距,你可能在一条三英尺宽的铁道上进镇,但在另一边出镇时,它变成四英尺宽了

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