a US town on the Mississippi River in the state of Iowa. It is sometimes referred to as the typical example of a small, boring US community. A writer in the New Yorker once said that it was not the magazine for 'the old lady from Dubuque'. 迪比克(Dubuque):爱荷华州密西西比河上的美国小镇。它有时被称为一个无聊的美国小社区的典型例子。《纽约客》的一位作家曾经说过,这不是“迪比克的老太太”的杂志。