Watering young plants in the dry season was tough for a lone boy.

对一个孤身一人的男孩来说，在旱季给幼苗浇水是很困难的。

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The crops failed because the season was dry.

因为气候干旱，作物歉收。

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But his most important innovation, he said, was to add manure to the zai during the dry season, a practice his peers derided as wasteful.

但他认为自己最重要的革新便是于旱季中在“zai”中添加肥料，但这却招来他同辈人的嘲笑，“太浪费了！”

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It was to Portobelo that the treasure from Panama City was brought during the dry season, by heavily guarded mule train along the Camino de Cruces and down the Chagres River, for shipment on to Seville on the mighty galleons of the treasure fleet which called in here once a year.

BBC: In search of pirates in Panama

But there was method to my madness because by the next dry season, the fate of the Cardamoms, the last great wilderness left in Indochina, may already be decided, before almost anyone from the outside world gets a look at it.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | 'There Was Method to My Madness'