现在，我们要向北来到美国的中部，我们来到了南达·科塔州。

Now we travel to the north central part of the country. We are in the state of South Dakota.

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例如，在1980年和1988年，严重干旱和高温肆虐了美国的中部和东部地区。

In both 1980 and 1988, for example, severe drought and heat ravaged the central and eastern parts of the country.

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许多在北美温带的森林、沼泽、草地等地区繁殖的鸟类，在冬季会飞去热带的加勒比海地区或者美国的中部、南部过冬。

Many of the bird species that breed in the temperate forests, marshes and backyards of North America spend the winter months in the tropics of the Caribbean, and Central and South America.

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This made me think of Mississippi Gene too and as the river poured down from mid America by starlight I knew, I knew like mad, that everything I had ever known and would ever know was One.

这又使我想起密西西比的吉恩,以及河流从美国中部倾斜而下的景象，我知道是很疯狂地，很疯狂地同样也有，我发现所有我知道或未知的事都是一体。

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which I don't know if you guys are familiar with. It's like a rural state in the middle of America,

我不知道你们对那里熟不熟悉。
这是在美国中部的一个以乡村为主的州。

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