The Twin Towers had the same function in New York that the Eiffel Tower has in Paris.

双子座对于纽约的作用,与埃菲尔铁塔对于巴黎的作用相同。

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But if you had something like this,by golly,this guy would be, Michigan dude is Napoleon and he's the very same person, the very same person as New York dude.

但如果出现了这种情况，你说，天哪，在密西根的老兄是拿破仑，而且他跟在纽约的老兄是同一人。

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Every major African-American writer of the twentieth century, at least until your lifetime, when black writers in this country are now born and raised in cities, in California or Minneapolis or New York or and in modern Atlanta and they come from all the same places other Americas do.

二十世纪的每一个主流的非裔美籍作家,至少到你们这一辈子所能接触到的,这个国家的黑人作家,现在,都生于城市长于城市,在加州,明尼阿波利斯市或者纽约市,或者现代亚特兰大,他们从和其他美国人来自同一个地方

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