Snow has brought travel chaos to California, which is known for its palm trees and blue skies, rather than freezing weather.

大雪使以棕榈树和碧蓝天空闻名的美国加利福尼亚州交通陷入一片混乱。

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THE first of Laurence Smith’s two weddings was meant to take place in the midwinter snow not far south of the Arctic Circle. The second foresaw balmy blue skies in Palm Springs, California.

劳伦斯•史密斯的第一次婚姻是注定了要在离北极圈南部不远的冰天雪地里举行，第二次则很有预见性的定在加州棕泉市，蓝天白云，情意盎然。

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The Atlantic is in most places not at all like the Pacific or the Indian oceans - it is not dominated by the color blue, nor is it overwhelmingly fringed with leaning palm trees and coral reefs.

在大多数时候，大西洋与太平洋或印度洋一点也不像——既不是一味的蓝，也没有倾斜的棕榈树和珊瑚礁做它成片的流苏。

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The Hanleys had roots near their summer home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and in Palm Beach, Fla.

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It was not the miles of palm-fringed, white sand or the ludicrously blue sea that stunned me the Caribbean is littered with beaches fit for postcards it was the fact that there was virtually no development in any direction and hardly a soul in sight.

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