It’s about a mile from Waconia, a quiet lakeside community 40 miles west of Minneapolis that is eerily similar to the fictional town of Lake Wobegon in Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion.

这儿离沃科尼亚约1英里，在明尼阿波利斯以西约40英里，是个宁静的湖边村落，像极了盖瑞森·凯勒(Garrison Keillor)在广播小说《牧场之家好作伴》(A Prairie Home Companion)里虚构的乌比冈湖小镇(Lake Wobegon)。

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According to Webb, the purpose of garrison government was to provide military support for a royal policy designed to limit the power of the upper classes in the American colonies.

根据韦伯的说法，驻军政府的目的是为一项旨在限制美国殖民地上层阶级权力的皇家政策提供军事支持。

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Last week the general tried to break out of the bubble by striding purposefully from the ISAF garrison in rural Kandahar he was visiting, in search of Afghans to question.

为了找来阿富汗人调查，上周上将尝试有目的地迅速脱离ISAF在坎大哈郊区的驻军。

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Anti-slavery activist William Lloyd Garrison started a paper in eighteen thirty-one with the purpose of ending slavery.

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