Beneath lies the public walk with trees, like a fathomless, black gulf, into whose silent darkness the spirit plunges, and floats away with some beloved spirit clasped in its embrace.

阳台下面是栽着树木的人行道，象一条深不可测的黑色海湾，飘忽的精灵就投入了这漆黑沉静的海湾，拥抱着某个所爱的精灵随波荡漾而去。

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And increasingly they affect not only estuaries and inlets, but also continental seas such as the Baltic, the Kattegat, the Black and East China seas and the Gulf of Mexico.

而且它们不仅越来越多地影响河口和海湾，而且也影响内陆海，象波罗的海、卡特·加特海峡、黑海、中国东海和墨西哥湾。

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“Today, as we look to the gulf, we see an entire way of life being threatened by a menacing cloud of black crude, ” Mr. Obama said.

“如今，在当我们观看海湾地区时，看到的是整个生活都受到危险的原油黑云威胁着的海湾”奥巴马说到。

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We listened to a choir of cicadas and crickets, stared out at the black Gulf, and slapped away the occasional mosquito.

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Three years later, a white mob burned and leveled the town of Rosewood, a black settlement by the Gulf of Mexico, 140 miles west of Sanford, after a white woman said a "colored" man had attacked her.

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Our eyes are riveted to watching the black trail of oil soiling Gulf waters and coastlines.

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