But later, after a friend who saw her planting late into the night by lamplight joked that the scene reminded him of the "backyard steel production" in the PRC's Great Leap Forward-wasted effort by people who didn't really know what they were doing-she gave up this work that was probably too strenuous for her anyway.
後來朋友看她種菜種到晚上點著燈還在忙，直笑她是土法煉鋼，也心疼她太累，又糟蹋了藝術天分。