These families' poverty and loss shone in the little piles of their belongings, the things they had carried with them when the water came: two or three cheap tin plates, a kettle.

可以从他们的家当看出来这些家庭的贫困与落后，大水来了以后他们带在身上的东西只有两三个便宜的锡盘，一个壶。

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I had a tin trunk carried up there, with blanket, electric torch, a couple of tins of baked beans, coffee, and a kettle.

在那里我有一个汽车行李箱，里边有毛毯，手电筒，罐装烤豆，咖啡和一个水壶。

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