Now there is new evidence to suggest that houses built with bales of straw can be very strong.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

A number of men, as one historian has written, I think quite effectively, "Mounted from log cabin to mansion" and I quote "On a stairway of cotton bales accumulating slaves as they went."

一些人就像一位历史学家写的那样,我觉得非常犀利,引述一段,"小木屋通往大厦的阶梯正是由,奴隶们用棉花包堆积成的"

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To build the houses, he fills a wood frame with tightly packed bales of straw.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

In many places, hay bales were used as a base to dump the snow on.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16