It took many buckers of water to fill the pot. A fire was built on the village square and pot was set to boil.

把铁锅装满水就花费了很多功夫。在村子广场上，架起了铁锅，点着了火。

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The blind man twisted a square of newsprint up into a cone and then dipped with a riddly spoon into the pot and filled the cone with wet peanuts.

瞎子把新闻纸卷成一个漏斗形状的纸筒，用漏勺在锅里舀出煮花生，装满纸筒后递给了英曼。

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Usually, it's an old man standing at a place about one square meter large, keeping stirring in a big iron pot full of chestnuts and black sands.

通常是有个老大爷，长年累月地站在一块一米见方的地方，摇着一口大锅，锅里盛满了细细的黑色沙粒和零星的栗子。

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This is a cyberspace equivalent of the fairytale about stone soup, in which two men set up a big pot full of water over a fire in a town square, drop in a stone, and start stirring.

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