We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

我们需要淤泥，是为了长出荷花。

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Gas drillers probably triggered an eruption of mud in East Java in May 2006.

2006年5月，也许是天然气钻机触发了东爪哇泥浆的喷发。

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42i beat them as fine as dust borne on the wind; I poured them out like mud in the streets.

我捣碎他们，如同风前的灰尘，倒出他们，如同街上的泥土。

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Instead of despairing at the discomfort of rain and mud, the crowd rejoiced in its power to resist the weather."

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They get stuck in the mud, and this forces them to give up the chase.

他们陷入了泥中，所以放弃了追捕。

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On the three thousand two hundred eighty-seventh night of your Parisian affair, as I lay in Simois-mud picking vermin off the wound I got that day from cunning Pandarus, exhaustion closed my eyes.

在你和帕里斯发生关系后的第三千两百八十七夜,那个日子是狡猾的潘达洛斯告诉我的,我正躺在西摩伊斯河岸边，拣伤口上的虱子,疲惫让我闭上了眼睛。

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Coastguards have issued a warning after four people got stuck in mud in three separate incidents in Dorset.

BBC: Dorset mud warning after four people get stuck

That said, AAA spreads have been stuck in the mud in recent weeks even as loan spreads have tightened considerably.

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She steadfastly stood by her husband while his name was being trawled through the mud in the press and in court.

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