So you'd have a patron who would be higher class, richer, more powerful, have some political power, and you would be loyal to your patron, and your patron would then represent you in court, try to get you jobs, try to get you more business, do all the kinds of things that patrons do for their clients.

要找个比你社会地位高，比你有钱有权，有一定政治影响力的庇护人，你也要忠诚于他，庇护人会在法庭上代表你，帮你找工作，帮你介绍生意，各种庇护人为被庇护人做的事。

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What is inescapable is farmers are a sociological category of people, different from non-farmers in all kinds of critical ways, and it is just an example of how this whole business has disappeared.

不可否认的是,农业人口是一种社会学对人口的分类,和非农业人口是完全不同的,这只不过是,整个产业走向消亡的一个例子罢了

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