The farmers who filled half of the road with feed corn laid out to dry every fall are absent and blocks of nearby small businesses, homes and factories have been reduced to piles of bricks.

过去每年秋天农民们会占用一半的道路晾晒玉米饲料，而如今已踪影全无； 附近的小店、房屋和工厂也已变成一片瓦砾。

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That room there could have been a bathroom, could have been a kitchen, who knows, is just destroyed and all that's left are piles of mud and sand, some bricks, pieces of furniture.

那个房间本来可能有间浴室，有间厨房，我们并不知悉，一切都遭到破坏，剩下的唯独是成堆的泥土和沙砾，一些砖块，及破碎的家具。

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The jumble of debris was replaced by piles of new bricks, lumber and other construction materials.

以前成堆的碎片残骸被一摞摞新砖，木材和其他的建筑材料所取代。

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We dodged barricades put up by residents to discourage looters and around piles of bricks from homes newly damaged from aftershocks.

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In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, piles of bricks and mounds of weed-ridden soil at a halted project attest to Wal-Mart's hurdles and frustrated plans.

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The work refers to piles of building bricks Mr. Othoniel saw lining the roads in India, but also the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York that are often seen as a turning point in gay liberation.

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