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In 2013 they will finish building One World Trade Center. It's also known as the Freedom Tower. It will be the tallest building in Manhattan. Tall, schmall, said Hal. Ten years to build it. They built BOTH Twin Towers in just seven years. Those were

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The Nautilus is made up of two hulls, one inside the other; between them, joining them together, are iron T-bars that give this ship the utmost rigidity. 诺第留斯号由双层船壳造成， 一层是内壳，另一层是外壳，两壳之间，用许

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THIS DREADFUL SIGHT was the first of a whole series of maritime catastrophes that the Nautilus would encounter on its run. 上面看到的可怕景象，是诺第留斯号在航程中碰到的一连串海中灾祸的开始， When it plied more heavi

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Surely, he will stop for water. 当然啦，他是会把船停下来装水的。 Nay. For a long time, now, the circus-running sun has raced within his fiery ring, and needs no sustenance but what's in himself. 不，那只在火热的圈子里，象赛

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Come, come, Captain Bildad; stop palavering,--away! and with that, Peleg hurried him over the side, and both dropt into the boat. 好啦,好啦,比勒达船长;别尽说废话喽,走吧!说着,法勒就催他翻过船侧,于是他俩就落进了小艇。

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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored harborless immensities. 我们已经勇猛地奔驶在大海上;而且我们就要消失在大海的无依无傍的一望无垠中。 Ere that come to pass; ere t