A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist.

一周之后，编辑终于接到了记者的传真。

Their appearance in politics showed that the distant Oregon country, larger in area than New England, New York, and Pennsylvania combined, was at last receiving from the nation the attention which its importance warranted.

他们在政治上的出现表明， 遥远的俄勒冈州，其面积比新英格兰、纽约和宾夕法尼亚的总和还大，终于受到了全国的关注， 其重要性值得关注。

She could not have said this two days later—for instance, on Tuesday, when she at last received a letter from Morris Townsend. It was an epistle of considerable length, measuring five large square pages, and written at Philadelphia.

两天后——例如，在星期二，当她终于收到莫里斯·汤森德的一封信时，她不可能再说这话了。这是一封相当长的书信，有五页大方形纸，写于非拉铁非。