If you were to say to me, what do you think is the most important thing, however you define thing, that has changed the character of life in the United States in the twentieth century, I would say the disappearance of farmers.

如果你问我,我认为什么才是,最重要的东西,你认为是什么,在二十世纪改变了,美国人的生活方式,我会说是农民退出了历史舞台

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