The race called for flying without stopping from Los Angeles in the western state of California, to the city of Chicago, in the middle western state of Illinois.

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Well, in any case the jar is just arbitrarily in the middle of that, organizing everything without participating in the nature of anything.

好，无论如何坛子只是被随意地放置在了自由游戏之中，组织一切，却不参与任何事物的本质。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You've got to think about that and what it means and how were they transmitted and preserved without ; the means of technology, obviously, that we have today; and what was so exciting in the middle of the twentieth century was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.I'm sure that you've heard of them.

你们需要考虑到这点及这意味着什么,还有在没有当今我们所拥有的技术的年代,是如何传播和留传下来的;,在20世纪中期时最令人兴奋的就是发现了,死海古卷，我确定你们曾经听说过。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Also, people who come in early maybe should try to sit in the middle part of the classroom, so the latecomers can come in without too much disruption.

还有,来得早的人最好尽量,坐在教室中间的座位,这样就不必站起来给迟到的人让路

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