especially in the New England and Middle Atlantic states, were generally literate and at home in arithmetic and in some aspects of geometry and trigonometry. （NETEM 1996 Passage 4, paragraph 3）

正是因为有了这些学校，我们的早期技工才普遍能读会写，并精通算术及部分几何和三角，这种情况在新英格兰和大西洋中部各州尤为可见。

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The economics can be more favorable for small fries, too, especially in densely populated areas like New England where large developers can't secure sprawling tracts for mammoth retirement communities.

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Arsenic levels higher than the current EPA standard have been discovered in private wells in New England, especially southeastern New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts.

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There's a huge demand for new housing, especially in south-east England, and if greenfield sites are to be avoided, the land available for development is often in the very areas most at risk from flooding.

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