The sun bakes the mud making it very hard.

太阳烘烤着泥土，使其变得非常坚硬。

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It can burrow into the mud when times are hard and lie without food for months, before exploding back into the ecosystem when conditions improve. It eats almost anything that moves.

它能在爆破回到生态系统，条件得到改善前，危机来临时藏匿于泥泞中数月不进食。

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Towards the Iranian border and south to the Gulf, rigid and yellowing reeds jut from a hard-baked landscape of cracked mud.

在接近伊朗边境和海湾南部的地方，坚强的黄色的芦苇从裂开的土地上生长了出来。

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Kern County, for one, had seen its population swell by more than 60 percent in the last five years, and although health officers had cleaned up the squatter camps that once plagued the area, many migrants were still living in slums with inadequate sewers and drains, ramshackle houses, and litter-strewn dirt roads that would turn to mud after a hard winter rain.

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But mud, once thrown, is hard to wash off.

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