clod

音标发音

Inside is this giant dirt clod.
那裡麪是一個巨大的土塊。
Sticking out of the clod is a shoe.
從土塊裡還伸出來一衹鞋。
He must distinguish infallibly between the little clod of manure , which sticks to the crocus of necessity, and that which is plastered to it out of bravado.
他必須準確無誤地分辯出哪些是出於必要而黏在報春花上麪的小小糞土塊，哪些是爲了虛張聲勢而有意塗抹在報春花上麪的汙泥。

Or am I over-thinking this and, instead, I once again acted like a clod?
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