His typical American farmer, Farmer James, was of course a Pennsylvanian sturdy, probably had some German blood in him.

是一个典型美国农民,他是一个宾夕法尼亚人,强壮,也许还带有一些德国血统

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His second wife was a Latvian peasant maid.

他的第二任妻子是一位拉脱维亚农民出身的女佣

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He worked at all sorts of jobs: in factories, at a mill, on a newspaper. He was a schoolteacher, and of course he was a farmer, too, when his grandfather gave him a farm to work, which he did, for ten years in Derry, New Hampshire.

他做过各种工作，在工厂，磨坊，报社，他也当过教师，他是一个农民，他祖父给了他一块地，十年里他都在新汉普夏羊劳作。

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