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 .