A normal reason for fighting is a dispute about a piece of land that is more or less on the boundary between them, and so that's one aspect of their world.

战争的常见原因就是领土争端,争夺一片或多或少在他们边界之间的领土,这是他们生活的一个部分

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Now, despite the fact that this is a very small piece of land, it boasts great geographical diversity.

尽管它只是狭小的一片土地，它因丰富多样的地理而自豪。

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People either rented the land from a large landowner or they were hired help who got nothing except a salary or a piece of what they did.

人们可以从一个大的农场主那里租种土地,或者农场主雇佣那些除了有点薪水,或者手工艺品之外一无所有的人

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If you had five slaves and a good piece of land in Alabama in 1820, you might very likely have fifty slaves and a hell of a lot more land a decade later.

820年,如果你在阿拉巴马州,拥有五个奴隶和一块肥沃的土地,十年后你很可能就会拥有五十个奴隶,以及更多的土地

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