每个成员都自告奋勇地打扫和挖地，一共挖了五块浅苗床用于种花。

Each member volunteered to clean up and to dig in plot, five flats of flowers.

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我们曾尝试在花园里挖一个水池，但因地下水太过浅，只好放弃，没能完工，挖出来的土堆成了一个小山包。

An attempt had been made to dig a tank in the garden, but the subsoil water proving too low, it had been abandoned, unfinished, with the excavated earth left piled up into a hillock.

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他们挖了一个浅坑把垃圾扔在了里面。

They'd dug a shallow pit and left the rubbish in it.

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