Suppose you decide to make a trek to the North Pole. You can't catch a plane there. So instead, you pull out your compass, watch the needle swing northward and plot a path, right?

假设你决定长途跋涉去北极，又不能坐飞机去，那么只好拿出指南针，根据指向北方的指针绘制出路径，对么？

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They count down the final seconds to midnight as they watch a brightly lit ball slide down a pole on top of a tall building.

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