Early next day Ma put the shelled corn and the bag of ashes into the big iron kettle.

第二天一早，妈妈就把剥好的玉米和一袋灰放进了大铁壶里。

The old woman sprang up, seized the iron kettle off the gas stove and took it over to the sink.

老太婆一跃而起， 从煤气炉上抓起铁水壶， 拿到水池边。

Then he hauls it to a big iron kettle that hangs by a chain from a cross- timber between two trees.

然后他把它拖到一个大铁壶旁，铁壶用链子挂在两棵树之间的横木上。

Back of the house a Negro stirred rice in a forty-gallon iron kettle with a paddle as big as an oar.

屋子后面，一个黑人在一个四十加仑的铁锅里用桨一样大的桨在搅拌米饭。