Their goal was to colonize the rich lands around the Kentucky River and establish Kentucky as the 14th colony.

他们的目标是将肯塔基河周边富饶土地据为己有，并将肯塔基建为第14个殖民地。

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Yet in December of 1811, a pair of massive magnitude 7.2+ temblors ripped through the Mississippi River Valley near the corners of Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Illinois.

但在1811年12月，两次超过7.2级的大地震撕裂了临近密苏里州、肯塔基州、阿肯色州、田纳西州和伊利诺斯州交界处的密西西比河河谷。

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A river, about 417 km (259 mi) long, of north-central Kentucky flowing northwest to the Ohio river.

美国肯塔基州中北部的一条河流，流程约417公里(合259英里)，向西北流入俄亥俄河。

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Kentucky reached from the mountains of Virginia to the Mississippi River.

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In Democracy in America there's that famous passage, or passages, when Tocqueville crosses the Ohio River, from Ohio into Kentucky, from free soil into slave soil, free state into a slave state.

在托克维尔跨越俄亥俄河,从俄亥俄进入到肯塔基州,从自由之所走向奴役之地的那段游历中,为《美国民主》贡献了数段名言

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Burkesville sits amid rolling hills near the Tennessee-Kentucky state line along the Cumberland River, in the Appalachia region.

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The Tennessee Valley Authority said it was taking the unusual flood-prevention measure of spilling 1.5 million gallons of water per second through the Kentucky Dam near Paducah from the Tennessee River into the Ohio River.

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Louisville barely registers on most folks' list of hip places to travel, but it comes alive each year in the days before the first Saturday in May when this not-quite Southern, not-quite Midwestern Ohio River town turns on the charm for the Kentucky Derby Festival.

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