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89.What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
89.什么洋位于美國的西海岸？
Answer: Pacific (Ocean)
答案：太平（洋）
Explanation: In the 1800s, most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny,
解釋：在19世紀(jì)，絕大多數(shù)的美國人信奉“命定擴張論”，
or the idea that the United States was supposed to expand (or grow) across North America to reach from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west.
或美國應(yīng)該擴張（或擴大）的觀念：橫貫北美洲，東抵大西洋，西達太平洋。
This was an important dream for the United States, but it took many, many years to accomplish (or to make it happen).
這對美國來說是重要的夢想，但這花了很多年才實現(xiàn)（或使之發(fā)生）。
Traveling to the west coast was very difficult and dangerous in the 1800s.
在19世紀(jì)，前往西海岸是非常困難和危險的。
People couldn't fly in a plane or drive a car, of course.
人們當(dāng)然無法坐飛機或開車。
Instead, they traveled in covered wagons,
他們是乘坐大篷馬車出行的，
which were heavy, wooden boxes covered in white fabric that rode on wheels and were pulled by oxen, which are very strong cows.
也就是上面蓋有白布的笨重的木箱子，它下面安有車輪并由強壯的牛拉動。
The trail (or road) that they traveled on was called the Oregon Trail.
他們行走的小道（或路）被稱為俄勒岡小道。
The journey (or long trip) covered more than 2,000 miles and took about five or six months.
該旅程（或長途旅行）超過3218公里，耗時大約5-6個月。
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