It took all day to clear a section of road in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza City. At the end of it, Ahmed Alyan, a UN engineer, was exhausted(精疲力竭的), surrounded by mountains of rubble(堆积如山的瓦砾) despite the day’s work.
清理加沙城泰勒哈瓦街区的一段道路花了整整一天。一天工作结束后，联合国工程师艾哈迈德·阿利安精疲力竭，尽管干了一整天，他周围仍是堆积如山的瓦砾。
“I feel as if we are holding a spoon and trying to empty the sea(就像拿着勺子想舀干大海),” Alyan said, beads of sweat trickling(滴落、流淌) down his forehead after a long, hot summer day.
“我感觉就像拿着一把勺子，想把大海舀干，”阿利安说道，在一个漫长炎热的夏日之后，汗珠从他额头滚落。
Alyan is part of a World Food Programme (WFP) team who have been working on Beirut Street, once a busy main thoroughfare(主干道、大道) lined with(两旁排列着) shops, offices and homes and filled with traffic and people. But now it is virtually deserted(空无一人的).
阿利安是世界粮食计划署（WFP）团队的一员，他们一直在贝鲁特街工作。这条街曾是繁忙的主干道，两旁店铺、办公室和住宅林立，车水马龙。但如今，这里几乎空无一人。