Yes. I wonder if you can send up some of boiling water for me.
是的,你可以送点开水上来吗?
If he doesn't, will you wash the dishes.
如果他不,你会洗碟子吗?
Apparently what happened was that water collected on these tar pits, and the bigger animals like the elephants ventured out on to the apparently firm surface to drink, and were promptly bogged in the tar.