Krisilyn Patton is visiting from Alabama.

I've saved my favorite for last: Murray's first novel, "Train Whistle Guitar," an autobiographical coming-of-age story set in his native Alabama.

我把我最喜爱的留到了最后。穆瑞的第一本小说《火车，口哨，吉他》（Train Whistle Guitar）是一步自传性质的成长小说。故事发生在他的家乡阿拉巴马州。

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Alabama is known as the Heart of Dixie because it is in the very middle of a group of states in the Deep South.

阿拉巴马州被称为美国“南部各州的中心”（Heart of Dixie），因为它地处美国最南部各州的正中心。

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In the winter of 1902, an Alabama woman named Mary Anderson visited New York and was appalled by how the weather slowed down streetcars.

1902年冬天，阿拉巴马州的一个名叫玛丽·安德森（Mary Anderson）的女人来纽约旅行，糟糕的天气令行车如此缓慢，她感到大为震惊。

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Police say a UPS employee opened fire inside one of the company's warehouses in Alabama, killing 2 people before taking his own life.

警方称一名UPS员工在阿拉巴马州公司的一个仓库内开枪，在杀死两个人之后自杀。

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Alabama is ready to welcome an estimated 30000 visitors to Selma in March for the 50th anniversary of the civil rights marches that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

今年3月，阿拉巴马州将迎接大约三万名游客来到塞尔玛，纪念民权游行50周年，该游行促成了1965年的《投票权法案》（Voting Rights Act）。

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That's just the kind of devastation that Dauphin Island, Alabama is trying to avoid.

这就是阿拉巴马州Dauphin Island正在努力避免的难以想象的灾难。

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Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Orange Beach, Alabama.

NPR新闻，黛比·埃利奥特阿拉巴马州奥兰治海滩报道。

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Monica Lynn, from Alabama, has travelled to Italy, Barbados and the Phillipines.

这名妹子名叫Monica，来自阿拉巴马州，已经去过意大利、巴巴多斯和菲律宾

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Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has deployed 2000 National Guard troops to in search-and-rescue efforts.

阿拉巴马州州长本特雷（Robert Bentley）已经部署了2000名国民警卫队士兵协助进行搜救工作。

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Death Toll From US Tornados Rises to at Least 292 The National Weather Service says about 150 tornados tore through parts the southern states of Mississippi and Alabama on Wednesday.

.美国国家气象局（national weather service）表示，周三，南部的密西西比州和阿拉巴马州部分地区遭遇了接近150场龙卷风袭击。

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Like any kid from the state of Alabama, he had dreams of making it in the NFL.

和阿拉巴马州的任何一个孩子一样，他梦想着进入NFL（National Football League美国全国橄榄球联盟）。

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As chief executive of the friend bank in south-eastern Alabama, Ms Harris Johnson had an ambitious 20-year growth plan.

作为位于阿拉巴马州东南部的friend bank的首席执行官，哈里斯约翰逊有一个雄心勃勃的20年增长计划。

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She grew up in Alabama, US and had an active childhood.

她在美国的阿拉巴马州长大，有一个很愉快的童年。

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This won him first prize at the Alabama State Science Fair.

这使他在阿拉巴马州科学博览会上获得一等奖。

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On December 1,1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks would not give up her seat on a bus to a passenger ．

1955年12月1日,在阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利的一辆公共汽车上,罗莎·帕克斯不愿意把她的座位让给一位乘客。

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China's restrictions on raw materials continue to distort competition and increase global prices, making conditions for our companies even more difficult in this economic climate, said Catherine Ashton, the EU's trade commissioner.

欧盟贸易专员凯瑟琳阿什顿（Catherine Ashton）表示：中国对原材料的限制还在继续扭曲竞争格局，推高全球价格，在这种经济气候下，这令我们的公司更加举步维艰。

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Aside from the trend towards mobile gaming, a shift towards mobile advertising has helped push up profits, according to Elinor Leung, analyst at CLSA, a Hong Kong-based investment group.

总部位于香港的投资集团里昂证券（CLSA）的分析师梁向奕（Elinor Leung）表示，除了转向手机游戏的趋势外，向手机广告的转移也帮助推高了利润。

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The possibility of Chinese investment comes at a critical moment for Italy with markets demanding increasingly high yields to buy public sector debt that is projected to reach 120 per cent of gross domestic product this year, a ratio second only to Greece in the eurozone.

目前意大利正处在一个关键时刻。市场不断推高意大利公共部门债券的收益率水平。今年，意大利公共债务据估计将达到国内生产总值（GDP）的120%，在欧元区仅次于希腊。

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Bonhams is evidently hoping that some of this grisly history will cling to the desk and push the price above the 6,000 estimate.

Bonhams显然希望，这张书桌上会仍然残留着这段恐怖历史的某些片断，从而推高价格超过估定的6000英镑。

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A lack of competition caused by intellectual property protections keeps that price high, the theory goes, and when those patents expire next year the price of these machines will drop, increasing access to laser sintering technology and lowering the overall cost of manufacturing by 3-D printer.

按照现在的说法，由于存在知识产权保护而导致的竞争不足推高了造价，但当这些专利明年到期后这种打印机就会降价，使激光烧结的使用率增加，同时降低3D打印机的整体生产成本。

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