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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So, wouldn't you think that farmers would want to buy crop insurance from this Swiss company?

难道你们不认为农民应该希望从,瑞士再保险那里购买农作物保险吗

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Well, now one of the things farmers in history discovered is that it's very hard to do well as a farmer if all you do is grow the crops, because people normally don't use what you grow in the form in which you grow it.

关于农民我们在历史上能够得知的一件事是,当好农民很困难,特别是只种农作物的农民,因为人们一般不会将,你从地里种出来的东西留作种子

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