I can provide you with a pickaxe .

我能提供你一个镐.

Instead of a pickaxe , you can offer me some tea .

镐不用，你倒可以给我一些茶.

Armed with only one pickaxe and their bare hands , they tunneled their way through 66 feet of coal .

他们的手边只有一个镐头，他们在煤碳中挖出了66英尺的坑道。

A few old-timers remain , but most of the 15000 delegates at this year 's event were more adept at wielding a blackberry than a pickaxe , and were more likely to have come from mongolia , peru or south africa than balmertown , northern ontario . Yet the conversation was reassuringly familiar .

虽然还能看到几个以前的老矿工的身影，但这次会议的15000个代表中大部分人玩起无线通讯设备比使用镐子还熟练，而且他们中有很多人来自蒙古，秘鲁或南非，而不是安大略北部的巴尔莫镇。