My concern being the reader, I will begin by confessing that my first two attempts to read through Blood Meridian failed, because I flinched from the overwhelming carnage that McCarthy portrays.

我所忧虑的是读者，我先得承认，我最初两次通读《血色子午线》的尝试都未能如愿，因为麦卡锡描述的那些汹涌而来的杀戮场面令我退缩不前。

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So far we have entered the grand Meridian Gate and crossed the five bridges that span the Inner Golden River and the large first courtyard.

到目前为止我们已经进入午门，穿过与第一个院子交叉的金水河上的玉石桥。

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The earth was first proved to be an oblate sphere by survey. It was found that the higher the latitude of a place was, the shorter the straight line distance between every degree of meridian was.

在测量中已发现纬度越高的地点，子午线每一度的直线距离越短，首次用测量方法证明地球为扁圆形。

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Myriad features come standard, with even more on the options list, including a first-class Meridian audio system and all the latest high-tech safety systems.

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On 6 October 2007, he finally crossed the prime meridian again to become the first person to circumnavigate the earth using only human power.

BBC: Jason Lewis: Circumnavigating the world

Thus was born First Meridian -- with Hays putting up most of the backing but taking only a minority stake.

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