That border, excuse me, they are relics the British Empire are exiting in the minds of map-makers and politicians, not in the minds of people.

那个边境，不好意思，是大英帝国所建造的，只存在于,地图制造者和政治家的脑中，而人们并不认可它。

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One thirteenth-century Egyptian papyrus describes Egypt's tight control of her border areas, and another reports some Egyptian officials pursuing some runaway slaves Obviously this happened from time to time, escaping into the desert.

一张十三世纪的纸莎草纸上描述了,埃及对它边境地区的严格控制，还有一张记录埃及官员追逐逃跑的奴隶,这显然时常发生，逃往沙漠。

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And 72 hours by train he found himself on a huge cotton plantation, near Pickensville, Alabama, on the in west central Alabama, on the Mississippi border, at 14-years-old.

在搭乘了七十二小时的火车后,他发现自己身处亚拉巴马的皮肯斯维尔附近,一个巨大的棉花种植园中,在亚拉巴马西部的中心,密西西比的边界,那年他仅仅十四岁

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