A dozen hopeful men in stained straw hats stood back to let me inspect their work, which so far had yielded only a mountain of exhumed sand, dry as dust.

十多个头戴草帽的人满怀希望地在地面忙做，汗水和泥水弄脏了草帽。为了让我看到他们的劳动成果他们退后了几步，我看到从井底掘出的沙子已经堆成一座小山，这些沙子非常干燥见不到一点水分。

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This dry white wine has a clear straw colour, a typical aroma integration of modern chardonnay. Drupe, sweet melon and tangerines, well -balanced with each other.

这款酒呈明亮的稻草色，是很典型的现代霞多丽，核果，甜瓜和柑橘香彼此融合，交相辉映。

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Her hair is dry and messy like a bunch of straw.

她的头发又干又乱，像一束禾秆草。

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Gisma joined a bedraggled crowd slumped on the dry earth outside a straw hut where South Sudanese officials registered each new arrival and weighed the younger children - some with distended bellies and painfully thin limbs.

BBC: Fleeing from Sudan's Nuba Mountains

This style, found almost nowhere else in Germany, uses dry straw and water reed to build the roofs, resulting in a home that is cool in the summer and warm in winter.

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