It was a hard-swept looking little house with hard-polished Windows, and a clean mud-mat on the front steps.

看得出这座不大的屋子好好打扫过，窗户也曾细心地擦拭过，就连前面台阶上的擦鞋垫都收拾得干干净净。

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She saw the Polish words, dirty and all-knowing and unreformed, flinging mud on the clean English words until everything was equally dirty.

她看到荷兰语——污秽不堪，无所不知，质地粗糙——向纯净的英语扔泥巴，直至最后大家都一样肮脏。

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Stopping at a stream to cool down I take the opportunity to clean some of that mud off my radiator.

流停止在一个冷静下来，我借此机会，清理淤泥散热器把我的一些那种。

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Dozens of suburbs were submerged and residents are continuing to clean up swathes of mud and debris.

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It took a long time to clean up our classrooms especially the vinyl mats that we had to scrub the mud, dry them outside and roll them out again in our classes.

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We weren't there, we were brought in to clean up this newspaper, with a new editor who is beyond reproach, but the mud was sticking on us.

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