地名有着持久的意义，因为在整个英格兰，几乎没有一个城镇或村庄没有在某个时期把它的名字赋予给一个家庭。
Place-names have a lasting interest since there is hardly a town or village in all England that has not at some time given its name to a family.
1769年，在英格兰牛津郡的一个小镇上，一个名字平平无奇的叫威廉·史密斯的小孩出生在一个贫穷的乡村铁匠家庭。
In 1769 in a little town in Oxfordshire, England, a child with the very ordinary name of William Smith was born into the poor family of a village blacksmith.
殖民地新英格兰当然就是个原型：一个文化素养高的家庭农场主的社会。
Colonial New England is, of course, the archetype: a society of highly literate, family farmers.
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