Just a couple of hours to the northwest of the capital is the wine-growing area of Hunter Valley.

在首都的西北仅两三个小时的路程就是猎人谷的葡萄酒酿造区。

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There is growing support for the theory that migration took place much earlier, by sea, following a coastal route along Alaska and down the northwest coast.

越来越多的人支持这样一种理论，即移民发生得要早得多，是沿着阿拉斯加沿海路线，沿西北海岸而下通过海路进行的。

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We are pretty sure that horses were first domesticated a bit earlier, to the northwest, in the area that is now Ukraine and western Russia.

我们很确定在早些时候，马就在西北地区，即现在的乌克兰和俄罗斯西部被驯养。

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Passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit say just as the plane was getting ready to land there was a loud pop, and then panic.

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The railroad had a lot to do, too, of course, with linking northeast with northwest, which has a lot to do with a certain sense of economic isolation that set in in the South, to some extent.

铁路也连接了,美国东北和西北地区,在一定程度上,它和当时南方,某种意义上的经济孤立脱不了干系

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The director, in his airy way, has really created a world here: he turns the urban Northwest into a Forest of Arden for young professionals and hopeful grunge-rockers.

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Once at altitude, Bill noticed a Northwest Airlines DC-9 a few miles off our left wing.

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