那年是2002年,当时我已经做了大概5年的苦力活。我那时27岁,有着十足的男子气概——怎么可能会有什么糟糕的事发生在我身上?我在做的这一特殊的苦力活就是和其他四个伙计一块挖一条主输水管。一个人负责挖沟渠,其余的人就往沟渠里放管,接着,我们身后的挖掘机便往沟渠里填土。感觉那条沟渠很长,我们不停地往前铺管,一天能铺上约1000英尺(约304.8米)长的管。 That year was 2002, when I had been doing hard work for about 5 years. I was 27 years old and I was full of masculinity - how could something bad happen to me? The special hard work I was doing was digging a main water pipe with the other four guys. One person is responsible for digging ditches. The rest of them are piped into the ditch. Then, the excavator behind us fills the ditch. I feel that the ditch is very long. We keep laying pipes and we can lay about 1,000 feet (about 304.8 meters) of pipe a day.