We are hand in hand, step by step with difficulty walking, she saw a lot of cow dung, horse manure, and dog, when I thought: Who is so wicked it?

我们手挽着手，一步一步艰难地走着，竟看到了许多的牛粪、马粪和狗粪，当时我就想：谁这么缺德呢？

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At one extreme is a man who feels he is up to his eyeballs in horse manure, his financial difficulties beyond resolution in his view, and has openly talked about suicide.

其中一个极端的人觉得自己完全陷在马粪里，因为他认为自己的财务困难是无法解决的，他甚至公开谈到自杀。

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No one ever accused Carl Rosen of not stopping to smell the roses, or, in his case, the horse manure.

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Buzzing flies and the smell of horse manure suffused the air.

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In thirty years, our obsessive application of this concept narrowly to fossil fuels and CO2 production will seem as misguided as a nineteenth century fixation on conserving whale oil and cleaning up horse manure in the city streets.

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