City residents have gone to sleep beside grim building sites and woken to find fully grown trees where once was only mud and girders.

居住在乱糟糟工地附近的居民，一觉醒来，发现在原本只有泥浆和大梁的地方，种上了枝繁叶茂的树木。

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Peppa: Sorry, George. It's only mud.

对不起，乔治，只是些泥而已。

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The first trap shows no signs of oil, only mud stirred up by recent storms.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Now, there is only mud.

CNN: Hundreds still missing in aftermath of Indonesia quakes

How can this be worse than sleeping on top of her parents' graves, saying Kaddish so many times the words ran together like nonsense, worse than sitting for days by the Pripiat River, watching for a little sock or Sophie's blue petticoat, sitting in the mud in only a nightgown and blanket, until the weather changed and Mariam came with the flier for America?

NPR: Excerpt: 'Away'

With 11 children and many more adults living in the simple mud home -- and only a few windows with glass panes -- it became clear that more needed to be done.

CNN: Wounded Afghan sisters find hope in U.S.