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枯れた蔓が絡みつく藤棚、砂場のそばに寝転んだプラスチック製のシャベル
かれたつるがからみつくふじだな、すなばのそばにねころんだぷらすちっくせいのしゃべるA wisteria trellis tangled with dead vines, a plastic shovel lying by the sandpit.
藤棚は花が枯れているどころか、蔓すらなかった
ふじだなははながかれているどころか、つるすらなかったFar from having withered flowers, the wisteria trellis did not even have vines.