I eventually pushed my crumpled bank note in front of everyone else's and was rewarded with a plastic bowl filled with squares of deep-fried tofu that resembled pieces of road tar.

终于我把一张皱巴巴的钱递过去了，然后有人给我发了一个塑料碗，里面装有几片炸得黑糊糊的像一块块马路上焦油沥青一样的豆腐。

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The pavement on the road is covered with black tar.

这条能马路的人行道上铺的是黑色的柏油。

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The road is so new that one can smell tar.

这条路新得都能闻到柏油的气味。

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Put your snoot in a glass of Barolo from a rich vintage, the kind people pay serious triple figures for, and see if "road tar" doesn't come close to the mark.

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True, wine words can be pretty hilarious, mostly unintentionally, but for the record, at least some of the phoniest-sounding--take "road tar" for instance, or "petrol"--turn out to be easily experienced, reproducible results.

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