When it rained, the road turned into mud; the mud turned into wet clay. This was the most dangerous time for a puller.
下雨的时候，路上会变得非常泥泞，那些泥泞又会变成粘土，这种状况，对于拉车夫而言是最危险的。
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The Hotel Silk Road has been open for less than two years. The green concrete walls of this compound jar somewhat with the brown, mud brick architecture of Bamiyan Valley.
丝绸之路旅馆开张至今还不到两年，旅馆的绿色混凝土院墙和巴米扬峡谷里的棕色土坯房屋有点不太协调。
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IN THE spring of 1948, around March as he remembered it, Haidar Abdel Shafi found himself at nightfall, waiting, in a small mud hut by the side of the main road in Deir al-Balah.