Only a few inches of mud wall kept him and his family from being gipsies themselves.

他家里那几英寸厚的土墙才使他和家里人没有成为吉普赛人。

I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek.

我清楚地记得当时自己趴在一堵坍塌的泥墙后面，窥视着那条小巷，旁边是结冰的小溪。

Here was a small rough hole in the mud wall, originally made for pigeons, through which the interior of the next shed could be viewed.

泥墙上有一个粗糙的小洞，本来是为鸽子开的，从那儿可以看到隔壁柴屋里的内部。

The knowing person prefers to follow the precipitous mule-track round the turn of the mud wall till he can take the edifice in the rear.

有见识的人更愿意沿着陡峭的骡道绕过泥墙的拐角， 直到他能拿下后面的大厦。

She made Gino buy it for her, because it was there she had first seen him sitting on the mud wall that faced the Volterra gate.

她让吉诺为她买下它， 因为她第一次看到他坐在面向沃尔泰拉大门的泥墙上就是在那里。

From these it appears that their houses were at first low and mean, like cottages, made of any sort of timber, and were built with mud walls and thatched with straw.

从这些可以看出，他们的房子起初低矮简陋，像农舍，用任何一种木材建造，用泥墙和稻草盖成。

Thanks to her the floors of tamped earth, the unwhitewashed mud walls, the rustic, wooden furniture they had built themselves were always clean, and the old chests where they kept their clothes exhaled the warm smell of basil.

多亏她勤于照料，夯实的泥土地面、未曾粉刷的上墙、粗糙的自制木器，经常都是千干净净的，而保存衣服的旧箱子还散发出紫苏轻淡的芳香。

" A rupia each, children. Just one rupia each and I will part the curtain of truth" . The old man sits against a mud wall. His sightless eyes are like molten silver embedded in deep, twin craters.

" 每人一个卢比，孩子们。每人只要一个卢比，我就会替你们揭开命运的帷幕。" 那个老人倚墙而坐，黯淡无光的双眼像滑溜溜的银子，镶嵌在一双深深的火山洞口中。