Suppose you're the driver of a trolley car, and your trolley car is hurtling down the track at 60 miles an hour.

假设你是一名电车司机，你的电车以60英里/小时的速度,在轨道上飞驰。

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But... Or say that the car is hurtling towards a switch that will drop the trap.

但是。。。或者是列车飞驰而来时,正好可以触发活门开关。

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The northern states by the Antebellum Period 1820s,1830s,1840s-- was beginning to sort of hurtle toward a different future than what that slave society was perhaps--no, not really slowly it too was hurtling toward a certain future.

北方在战前,也就是19世纪20至40年代,就急速开始朝着,和奴隶社会完全不同的方向发展,但是南方奴隶社会的发展得也不是很慢,它也在飞驰向一个确定的未来

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