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| 51. | 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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| 52. | 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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