So you try, if you can grow grain on your land or you grow it where you can, if not, you have to get it elsewhere.

所以你要有一个,如果你的土地适合耕种谷物,或者其它任何可以生产谷物的地方,如果不能,你就必须换个地方了

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So, we have evidence that the king doled out seed for planting, instructed people just exactly when to plant, where to plant, what to plant there, when to fertilize it if they did.

也有证据表明,国王恩赐作物种子,指导人民在何时,何地,耕种何种植物,以及如何在恰当的时间施肥

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Serfs who are compelled to work the land, or in some places even slaves, well, they have no incentive, put aside the question even of capacity, to invest capital for the purpose of improving the size and quality of the their crops, their trees, their vines.

那些被强迫耕种土地的农奴,或者是那些在其他地方直接成为奴隶的人,刨除能动性因素,农场主们,没有任何理由投资钱财,去改善他们农作物,果树和葡萄,的种植规模和品质

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We see him, a nobleman that he is, former king that he is, working the soil and how he does this is very illuminating, because he is clearly, according to Hanson, involved in the period after the transition away from an earlier style.

我们所看到的他,出身贵族,履职前任国王,耕种土地,他所作的一切都具有启蒙意义,因为,根据汉森所述,他无疑身处在一个向古风时期,转型的早期年代

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