A succession of bad harvest had reduced the small farmer to penury.

连续歉收使得这个小农场主陷入了贫困境地。

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A small farmer has a bad year, followed by another bad year with prospects for more of the same.

小本农民会遭遇收成不好的年景，接而又是那样的一年，接下来几年的前景也许都是如此。

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Raiford Calvert was made first lieutenant, because everybody liked Raif, and Abel Wynder, son of a swamp trapper, himself a small farmer, was elected second lieutenant.

雷弗德·卡尔弗特是人人都喜爱的，被任命为上尉，而艾布尔·温德，那个沼泽地捕猎手的儿子（他本人是小农），则被选做中尉了。

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They saw a way to represent their party of bankers and businessmen as the party of the working man and the small farmer.

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You have the small settled farmer in the more fertile areas.

在土地肥沃地区有一些定居的农民。

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For a small farmer, replacing a bucket with a pump can lead to cultivating a wider variety of crops and creating work for family and neighbors.

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Helping with seed, advice, fertiliser, and offering the small farmer the ability to band together to counterweight the market power of the large buyers.

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For all three the arrangement is like the one that governs chicken production in the U.S., with a giant corporation supplying inputs to a small farmer and then picking up the output at harvest time.

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Ethanol was making investors giddy last year when oil prices were high, corn prices were low and ethanol producers like Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ) and small farmer cooperatives were reaping huge profits distilling corn mash into fuel.

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