The shorter boy got stuck in the mud and started to sink.

矮个子男孩陷进了泥里，并开始往下沉。

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The younger boy had already run off towards a motley collection of mud brick houses nearby; but the eldest was still there, muttering darkly, chest out, showing that he wasn't intimidated.

小男孩已经朝附近杂色斑驳的泥砖屋子逃去，但大男孩还在原地，挺着胸嘟嘟囔囔，表示他不害怕。

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Sam was not aboard, but his younger brother, Henry, was-serving as a "mud clerk," or boy who would go ashore, often at a mud bank, to receive or hand off freight.

山姆不在船上，但弟弟亨利在船上。亨利是这艘船的“排泥手”，就是常到泥泞的河岸边，为货船搬运货物的男孩。

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In the pitch darkness, in the middle of a field, Harmon found the baby boy covered with mud and debris.

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