One of my first jobs as a green Army lieutenant in Vietnam was to build a road across a rice paddy.

我最初的工作之一是在越南作为绿军中尉时要修建一条通过稻田的公路。

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Only on close inspection do you see that it was never a town at all-at least not there. It was a rice paddy.

如果走近观察，你会发现这根本不是一座小城，至少不是这里的小城，这儿是一片水稻田。

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He was digging an irrigation ditch around a rice paddy, contemplating which tool was more effective, a hoe or a shovel.

他正在一片稻田周围挖掘一条灌溉渠，一边想着哪件工具更加有效，是锄头还是铁铲？

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The mortar was captured on a patrol in a rice paddy, from Vietcong forces.

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One hundred acres of his 700-acre farm in Holt Heath, Worcestershire, now resembles a rice paddy field.

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"You can't use any of it, " said Shigeru Matsumoto, a farmer with a rice paddy in this area.

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