Since then, rural areas across the region have been swept up in the ethanol craze, with new facilities sprouting all over corn country (see map).

自那以后，该地区广大农村都卷入乙醇热的大潮中，盛产玉米的农村纷纷建设新工厂(见图)。

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When I say that Gracie and I were shucking the sweet corn, what I actually mean is that Gracie was shucking the corn and I was drawing a diagrammatic map in one of my little blue spiral notebooks of precisely how she was shucking the corn.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet'