A little boy is on his knees scooping and packing the sand with plastic shovels into a bright blue bucket.

一个小男孩跪在地上，用塑料铲把沙装进一个浅蓝色的桶里。

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He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand.

他伸手从桌下拿出一桶沙子，开始慢慢倒进玻璃瓶。

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A little boy is on his knees scooping and packing the sand with plastic shovels into a bright blue bucket.

男孩跪在那儿用塑料铲挖沙子，并把沙子装在一个鲜艳的蓝桶里。

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Despite Grand Central's strategic significance, however, a bucket of sand tipped into one of these converters would have been enough to bring the terminal -- and 80% of the country's eastbound military movement -- to a standstill.

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If people fill the bucket with pebbles and sand (i.e. the small things), it is impossible to get the rocks in (i.e. the big things).

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He is looking at them as they absently sift sand with their hands, and imagining them as children in cotton hats, pouring sand from one bucket to another as their parents talk over and around them.

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