一方面，有些人质疑美国到底为何要在这个遥远的地方进行干预——即使是有限的干预。

On the one hand, some question why America should intervene at all — even in limited ways — in this distant land.

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虽然地方震引起的震动在这之前已经被记录到好几次了，但是还没有人记录到遥远地震传来的地震波。

Although the shaking of local earthquakes had been recorded several times before, nobody had ever registered the waves from a far away earthquake.

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毫无讽刺地说，在这样一个崇尚当地有机食品(用来自遥远地方的水浇灌的)、瑜伽(身体同时被整体瑜伽改变)以及整容手术的城市，这条河流恰恰是她所流过地区的真实写照。

In a city that worships, without irony, organic, local food grown with distant water and bodies simultaneously toned by holistic yoga and cosmetic surgery, the river mirrors what it runs through.

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