虽然做了成千上万它们最大的数百
    变丑了一小块土地上，他们挤
    一起，通过向地面用石头，每刮距离
    遗迹植被，砍伐树木，要想摆脱鸟
    和动物，灌装，石脑油烟雾和空气
    煤炭，仍然春天，弹簧，即使在城市。
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    Though hundreds of thousands had done their very best to
    disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded
    together, by paying the ground with stones, scraping away every
    vestige of vegetation, cutting down the trees, turning away birds
    and beasts, and filling the air with the smoke of naphtha and
    coal, still spring was spring, even in the town.