For best results, beets should be picked when the roots are two and one-half centimeters around.

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So one thing that readers lost, when they lost the second half of this book, is the sense that maturing, the process of maturing, was more than just the process of leaving the South.

因此没了书的后半部分，读者就读不到，其比远离南方的旅程，还要意味深长的，成长过程中的感想。

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It's kind of like the average price of a share adjusted for splits because you don't want the--obviously when they do a two-for-one split, the price falls in half and that's meaningless, so you want to correct for splits.

有点像经过分割调整的股票平均价格,因为你不想,当一股分割成两股,价格下跌一半,这是没意义的,所以要修正分割

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