| 1 | The dry river-bed finds no thanks for its past. | |
| 2 | The dry river-bed finds no thanks for its past. | |
| 3 | Consequently the soil was in ruins. All living things died one after another. | |
| 4 | One day, on the way back from the market, he fell into a dried well. | |
| 5 | On a dry lakebed, this man cleared some trees and bushes and built a farm. |