This place gets its name from a Creek Indian word, which refers to the unstable floating islands that are common within the swamp.

这个地方的名字来源于克里克印第安语，指的是沼泽中常见的不稳定的浮动岛屿。

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If you add a word, put an insertion mark in the right place and write the missing word in the blank.

如果你要添加一个单词，在正确的位置做一个插入标记，然后把缺失的单词写在空白处。

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For example, the word circus is used to describe any noisy place with a lot of activities going on.

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There is one exception. In the sixth century, I think it's around--imagine around 550 or something like that, the Greeks settle a single colony in the Delta of the Nile of Egypt at a place called Naucratis, and the root of that word is ship.

但有一个例外,在公元前六世纪,我想大概是,在公元前550年左右,希腊在埃及尼罗河三角洲,一个叫诺克拉提斯的地方建立了殖民地,Naucratis的意思就是船

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But word leaked out that it was to take place in the town of Rhinebeck, about a two-hour drive from New York City.

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There have been a couple of previous attempts to define and propagate Fauxhemia(n), notably by Urban Dictionary, which specifically attached the word to a place where trendiness hides the high rents and trust funds.

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Computers took the place of word processors and smart phones and tablets have all but replaced computers.

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Okay, but how, on a small budget, do you get the word out in a place as noisy as Manhattan?

FORBES: Let them eat cake . . .please!