President Obama recently announced that $8 billion in stimulus funds would go to developing high-speed rail corridors.

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The chateau was so big that when it freezes, they were trying to get to the bathroom and most of them never made it and peed on these long corridors that some of you have seen.

那城堡太大了,以至于到了冬天结冰的时候,那些贵族们连想去卫生间都去不了,只能在长长的走廊里方便,如你们中有些人见过的那样

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The project will develop 13 corridors between heavily populated areas, but only the ones in California and Florida will be truly high speed because,says Amtrak's Steve Kulm, those states will be the only ones to build tracks exclusively for high speed trains.

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