Sylvie was trembling as she whispered "two miles."

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If the referenced cities, the first cities, are 4,200 miles apart, the answers for the next two will center around 4,200 miles.

如果先前提到的城市，前面的两座城市，相距4200英里，那么人们对于后两座城市距离的回答,便会集中在4200英里附近。

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They have a barge that sits about two, three miles off.

离那里两三英里有一条驳船。

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Two hours,you can be on a damn train to New York City and you'll be lucky if you get eighty miles in two hours, or an hour and fifty minutes.

要知道,两个小时都可以做火车去纽约了,但如果是步行,八十公里你一个小时五十分钟,到两个小时内走到就算不错了

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So, two random cities, XYZ and ABC, are 4,200 miles apart.

比如两个随机的城市XYZ和ABC相距4200英里。

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