The teacher told the class the story of a man who swam a river three times before breakfast.

老师给同学们讲了一个小故事，说有一个人早饭前要在河里游泳，横渡三趟。

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What one needs to add, however, is a story about Pudong, or Shanghai east of the river.

需要补加的，是浦东的一个故事，即是上海黄浦江之东。

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So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.

有个故事是关于他的叔叔Hoskins的，他让理查坐在他的马车后，却连人带车掉到密西西比河里，这被作为了一个理查的真实笑话。

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The film Red Cliff by director John Woo, the most expensive ever made in China, retells the story of a battle on the Yangtze river, as Cao Cao's navy is moored on one bank while Liu Bei and his accomplices are plotting on the other.

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But Charles River is more the story of a man than of a mouse--a classic tale of a frustrated entrepreneur who wrests control of a family-founded company back from a giant corporation and remakes it in his own image.

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The sting took place in a dingy residential district of five-story apartment blocks on the outskirts of Dongguan, a city that is part of the Pearl River megalopolis extending from nearby Guangzhou to Hong Kong, 60 miles away.

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