The daylight sand deeper and deeper and deeper into the darkness, and the widowed land, whose harvest had been reaped, lay silent.

白昼更加深沉地投入黑暗之中，那已经收割了的孤寂的田地，默默地躺在那里。

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Singapore is by no means the only nation taking part in what is a global harvest of sand from beaches, rivers and seabeds.

但新加坡绝不是世界上唯一一个从海滩、河流和海底捞土的国家。

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There he saw fat night birds that lived in a cave, and river eels that electrified horses, and a beach called the Playa de Huevos because so many turtles planted eggs in its sand that the natives could simply harvest them.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Natives and Exotics'