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  • Почему в этом тексте существительное harbor употребляется без какого-либо артикля?
    It is 1845, in the port of Bedford. Bedford is in North America, near the Atlantic Ocean. Ishmael if from New York. He is interested in whales. He wants to sail the sea, and learn more about them. So he goes to Bedford, and looks for whaling work there. But there are no whaling ships in Bedford harbor that day.

  • Так здесь не просто harbour, а Bedford harbour.