Back in Benenden in Kent, my daydreams were of standing on volcanoes and riding through canyons but today, with 13, 000 miles still to go, I dream of my bed at home.

在肯特郡贝奈登的家中，我的白日梦是站在高高的火山上，还想穿越大峡谷。 但是今天，前面的旅程还有漫长的13 000英里，我梦见了家中的床。

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Still, people as far as 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) were warned to stay inside.

不过30公里(18.6英里)内的居民仍被警告不要外出。

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Winds across eastern Long Island were so strong that an entire movie theater was lifted off the ground and thrown two miles out to sea - with the matinee crowd and projectionist still inside.

横穿长岛东部的大风那么强烈，它将整个电影院掀离了地面，并抛到两英里外的海里——当时，看日场电影的人群和放映员还在电影院里面。

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We were still twenty miles off, but its high winds had been giving us a shake for the past half hour.

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Ample evidence is left of how they were carved from softer volcanic rock in a central quarry, but it is still a mystery how exactly they were then moved, despite weighing countless tons, over distances of miles with no mechanical propulsion (or even the wheel).

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