The clever ones threw a few limes and ears of corn into a shoulder bag and walked along pretending to be shoppers themselves.

几个机灵些的女人，扔几个酸橙和些苞谷在挎包里，边走边佯装着是买她们东西的顾客。

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You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you should keep to take to the store and which can be sacrificed to garbage.

你把自己收藏的塑料袋翻来翻去，看哪个应该保留用来带到商店去，那些可以被牺牲扔到垃圾里面去。

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In fact, Harris, the Seattle lawyer who has chronicled the issue on his "China Law Blog, " speculates that "honest and legal" companies--particularly American and European ones--could be left holding the bag if Chinese exporters don't pay the tax, as he says is often the case.

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