HIDDEN behind a row of trees and a rusted barbed-wire fence on a rutted dirt road in the Ecuadorean jungle, Shushufindi 61, a pit in which oil waste is dumped, is hardly a beauty spot.

在厄瓜多尔舒舒分地61区的热带丛林中，一排排的树木和生锈的带刺铁丝围栏之后，藏匿着一处石油废料倾倒坑，周围肮脏的地上尚留有车辙。

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Walking a few yards from the pit, I kicked disgustedly at the dirt.

我从沙坑里走出几码远，气愤地踢着沙土。

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The children apparently were trying to retrieve a small "child-like pickaxe" at the bottom of the sloped pit when the dirt wall collapsed on them before 6 p.m.

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The father of one of the young men has sent pit-bull detectives to dig up dirt on Copeland to cool his prosecutorial ardor.

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