When I returned to Auja in early May, its spring had been reduced toa trickle, leaving the village as dry as a fistful of talcum powder.
五月初，当我回到奥贾时，它的泉水已经减少为涓涓细流，使这座村庄像爽身粉一样干燥。
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As Bromberg and I followed the Auja spring east, we passed a complexof pumps and pipes behind a barbed-wire fence—a Mekorot well, drilled2, 000 feet deep to tap the aquifer.