In Dujiangyan, a large mechanical digger scoops slabs of concrete and twisted metal rods from a massive pile of rubble.

在都江堰，一台大型挖掘机从一大堆碎石中铲出混凝土板和扭曲的金属杆。

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Within days, even before I knew about the multistory glass office building destined to occupy that block, my find had been reduced to a pile of rubble.

短短数日里，甚至在我尚未知道这条街区注定要被一座满是玻璃的办公楼占据的时候，我再经过时所能发现的只是一堆瓦砾。

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The main building of the Beichuan Middle School, a seven-story structure, had been reduced to a pile of rubble about 2 meters high.

原本七层的北川中学主教学楼，已经成为了仅高两米的废墟堆。

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More were delivered from the hotel to the rubble pile where they were working.

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Mathilde is a rubble pile with a density very close to that of water.

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"There is no strong evidence that it's a rubble pile like Mathilde, " the large asteroid Near passed and photographed in 1997.

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