The North and the South had roughly, as the Northern and Southern states, the Free states and Slave states, had roughly the same geographic size.

北方和南方大致上,北方和南方的各州有,自由州和蓄奴州的区别,但其地理大小总体上相同

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It's not as though someday you're going to open up an issue of National Geographic where the cover story's going to be "At long last, explorers have discovered the number two."

你不会在某一天,打开一本国家地理时,发现上面会印着这样的封面故事,探险家们终于发现了数字2

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These are one might think about this these things he says are at least in part determined by certain kinds of natural or geographic and climatic qualities.

而这些，你们可能会说这些特质,如他所说，至少有一部份,是由某种自然,或地理及气候的特质所决定。

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