The muddy pond changed into a beautiful lotus pond after harnessing.

经过治理，这片烂泥塘成了漂亮的荷花塘。

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And then carved into the soles on a lotus flower, walk one step printed a beautiful lotus.

然后又在鞋底上刻了一朵莲花，走路时一步印出一朵漂亮的莲花。

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I saw a blossoming of the lotus pool eagerly looking at the sky, dotted in the lotus pond, some in full bloom, some bud, in full bloom in the leaf valve provocative, colorful, a beautiful lotus.

只见池中一朵朵的荷花翘首仰望天空，点缀在荷塘中的荷花有的怒放，有的含苞，怒放的叶瓣张扬，色彩鲜艳，多美的荷花。

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For four swoon-filled years during the dot com boom and bust a decade ago, I lived in San Francisco, the beautiful lotus-eating, Pacific-touching, city on a hill.

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