We love to read and everything we read is a page turner, ; all to the good; but the fact is our fascination with reading isn't simply a fascination that takes the form of having fun.

我们喜欢阅读，并且总是迫不及待地翻到下一页，每一页都在讲好事;,但是事实上阅读真正令我们着迷的地方,并不在于简单的娱乐功用。

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If Frederick Jackson Turner had anything right in "The Frontier Thesis", although he didn't pay hardly any attention to the South, this idea of a safety valve of a West to move to was surely there for slavery.

如果弗雷德里克·杰克逊·特纳,在《边境论》中有什么正确的言论,那就是,尽管他对南方几乎没有施以任何关注,即这个西进运动是一道安全阀的构想,显然是为奴隶制而设的

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