Day workers are loading the corncobs, they can get the pay of 15 cents for one bag.

正在装玉米芯的天天工，装一袋是一角五分钱。

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Corncobs litter the land. The men pick them up by hand and throw them into waiting tractor trailers.

图中这个男人正在把散落一地的玉米棒子收拾上拖拉机。

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"At first we ate rotten sorghum, then corncobs and then the bark off the trees," said Meng Qinghua, 85.

“我们起先吃烂高粱，然后是玉米棒子，然后扒树皮吃，”85岁的孟清华(音)说。

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But Eli's selling more kind of random bric-a-brac, like corncobs and candle wax.

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The bright yellows of the recently harvested corncobs and the bright blue Chinese sky contrast sharply with the grays, browns and smudged greens of the flat, bleak, open countryside.

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