在我成长的过程中，我见证了母亲用从小河里拣来的石头和在独轮车里搅和的水泥盖好那座房子——直到今天，她的手指印还留在那水泥上面。
I grew up watching my mother complete that house from the rocks she'd lifted from the creek and cement she mixed in a wheelbarrow-cement that today still bears her handprints.
虽然他们无权砍伐或锯掉树枝，但可随意拣走地上甚至是树上的枯枝，用钩子也好，曲柄杖也罢。
Though they were not permitted to cut or saw off branches, they were free to remove withered timber from the ground or even a tree, doing so by means of either a hook or a crook.
住在一楼的住户，在门外生个炉子，煮茶水，用的燃料多半是拣来的旧木屑，夹杂着塑料垃圾。
Folks living on the ground floor often move a stove outside and boil tea right there beside the road. Their fuel is often a mixture of wood chips and plastic wastes.
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