与其将他们的精力奉献在像打出一个更好的犁或者将地犁得更好这样的事情上，蒙太罗的农民们更愿意只做那些为了能保持维持饮食生活的必须工作，但仅仅如此而已。

Rather than devoting themselves to hammering out a better plow or plowing a better field, the peasants of Montaillou did what was necessary to keep food on their table, but nothing more.

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与其将他们的精力奉献在像打出一个更好的犁或者将地犁得更好这样的事情上，蒙太罗的农民们更愿意只做那些为了能保持维持饮食生活的必须工作，但仅仅如此而已。

Rather than devoting themselves to hammering out a better plow or plowing a better field, the peasants of Montaillou did what was necessary to keep food on their table, but nothing more.

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