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| 71. | They sledded seventy miles up the Yukon, swung to the left into the Stewart River, passed the Mayo and the McQuestion, and held on until the Stewart itself became a streamlet, threading the upstanding peaks which marked the backbone of the continent. |
| 他们驾着雪橇沿育空河而上走了七十英里，左转进司徒尔特河，经过麻约和迈科奎恩，一直向前，直到司徒尔河变成了一条小溪，穿过作为大陆脊梁的高高耸立的山峰。 |
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| 72. | Ears of storms had taken their toll on the old windmill. Its wheel, rusted and fallen, lay silent in the lush bluegrass. Its once animated silhouette was now a tall motionless steeple in the twilight sun. |
| 在落日的衬托下，曾经散发着生气的风车如今如耸立的尖塔般冰冷、生硬。 |
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| 73. | "The bristling of the hideous false teeth of tombstones on the hill affected her with a grisly kind of horror. She felt the time not far off when she would be buried there, added to the ghastly host under the tombstones and the monuments, in these filthy Midlands." |
| 这些假牙似的丑恶的墓石，耸立在那小山上，难她一种阴森的恐怖，她觉得她不久便要被埋葬在那儿，加入那墓石和墓碑下的鬼群中，在这污秽的米德兰地方。 |
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| 74. | Slow as a sea turtle on land, the 208-foot-high [63.4-meter-high] Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was rolled to its new home, a half mile [0.8 kilometers] from the beach, at a top speed of one foot [30.5 centimeters] a minute. |
| 高208英尺（约63.4米）的海持拉斯角灯塔，原来的耸立处在大地震及飓风（40）的侵袭中已被蚀淹，幸存的它便如一只缓慢匍匐于堤岸的海龟般搬迁至半英里（约0.8海里）以外的海滩上。 |
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