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。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选