About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.

在西单和纽约之间，机动车道和铁道会合并与其平行延伸了大约四分之一英里，绕开了一片荒凉贫瘠的土地。

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讨论一下：原文是不是在New York 之后少了个comma?