法典在他手里只是一根断株残桩了。

The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand.

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只有苍白，干硬，像断株的小麦一样。

But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubble-wheat.

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我母亲在那里对着破了的秋海棠花盆，腐烂了的 断株 和被蚂蚁们吞噬着的茉莉树干凝视良久，呼吸渐渐平缓下来。

From there my mother contemplated the broken pots of begonias, the rotted stubble, the trunk of the jasmine plant eaten away by ants, and she recovered her breath.

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