It’s lonely compared with downtown. There is an occasional tricycle (read Second World War-style motorbike and sidecar), the odd open-top truck packed with squealing goats, legs tied together.

与市中心比起来这里车很少，有时能看见二次大战时那种带边斗的摩托车。

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Two and half centuries later, in the first spring of the Civil War, Fort Monroe was a lonely Union redoubt in the heart of newly Confederate territory. Its defenders stood on constant guard.

两个半世纪之后，在内战爆发后的第一个春天，Fort Monroe成了新成立的联邦领土内为数不多的联邦军据点之一，士兵们一直绷紧神经保卫着。

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Lincoln said to the old man: "When I think of the sacrifices of life still to be offered, and the hearts and homes to be made lonely before this terrible war is over, my heart is like lead.

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For most of the cold war, Mr Pipes was a lonely ploughman.

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America, you've been asking to do something positive in this war and here is an easy opportunity to do something to make the lonely holiday season bright for our men and women in Guantanamo.

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On their way to fight the war, it's a pretty fair guess that they were scared and lonely.

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