You might even see the farmers sometimes who brought the food into market, and that was certainly true in earlier days.

有时候你甚至能在市场看到,农民在贩卖他们的农作物,过去的确是这样的

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The fisherman is also representative of the Irish peasantry to whom Yeats turns in scorn of the urban audience that he had tried to write for in the theater.

渔夫还代表了爱尔兰农民,他们是叶芝的新读众,叶芝此前鄙视并最终抛弃了,他曾尝试为之写作的城市读众。

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The vast multitudes were still farmers, but they began to now buy goods, manufactured goods, readymade clothing and shoes, cloth, candles, soap, all kinds of foodstuffs.

他们中的大多数人仍是农民,但是他们开始购买商品,工业制成品,成衣和鞋,布料,蜡烛,肥皂,各种各类的食品

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Two-thirds of the white South remained in those classes we've come to call the yeoman farmers, the poor whites, or the sand hill farmers, as they were sometimes called.

三分之二的白人家庭属于这个阶级,我们称他们是约曼农民,贫穷的白人,或者没有地的农民

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