There's a trick they do with one pea and three cups which is very hard to follow, and something like it, for greater stakes than a handful of loose change, is about to take place.

有人会用一颗豆子和三个杯子做让人困惑的戏法游戏，这让人难以理解。眼下，就有一场类似的戏法要变，只不过赌注可不只是一把黄豆。

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When the dawn mist is scattered, the field is paved with golden corn, cloud-like cotton, green pea, and red pepper.

当太阳驱散了黎明的薄雾。田野里满是金黄的玉米，云朵般的棉花，绿的豌豆，红的辣椒。

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Even if it isn't more than five dollars, Martin thought to himself, it will buy enough beans and pea-soup to enable me to write half a dozen like it, and possibly as good.

他想，即使不到五块钱，也还能买到足够的黄豆和豌豆熬汤，让他再写出六七篇那样的作品，说不定跟那一篇同样好呢。

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"Like a pea brain, " he says, he responded to all of their allegations.

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So we join the rich in beautiful dining rooms, like The Peninsula's Mei Jiang (peninsula.com) where we eat exquisite dim sum - rolled noodles with black beans and chilli, snow pea pastries, roast pork puffs so buttery they're like pig shortcakes - and are treated like pashas.

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