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89.What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
89.什么洋位于美国的西海岸？
Answer: Pacific (Ocean)
答案：太平（洋）
Explanation: In the 1800s, most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny,
解释：在19世纪，绝大多数的美国人信奉“命定扩张论”，
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.
或美国应该扩张（或扩大）的观念：横贯北美洲，东抵大西洋，西达太平洋。
This was an important dream for the United States, but it took many, many years to accomplish (or to make it happen).
这对美国来说是重要的梦想，但这花了很多年才实现（或使之发生）。
Traveling to the west coast was very difficult and dangerous in the 1800s.
在19世纪，前往西海岸是非常困难和危险的。
People couldn't fly in a plane or drive a car, of course.
人们当然无法坐飞机或开车。
Instead, they traveled in covered wagons,
他们是乘坐大篷马车出行的，
which were heavy, wooden boxes covered in white fabric that rode on wheels and were pulled by oxen, which are very strong cows.
也就是上面盖有白布的笨重的木箱子，它下面安有车轮并由强壮的牛拉动。
The trail (or road) that they traveled on was called the Oregon Trail.
他们行走的小道（或路）被称为俄勒冈小道。
The journey (or long trip) covered more than 2,000 miles and took about five or six months.
该旅程（或长途旅行）超过3218公里，耗时大约5-6个月。
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