I don't mean they dig in the ground, but they supervise it; they think about it. They are like people who are in charge of a plantation, their own plantation,I mean.

他们亲自开垦土地,但是他们亲自监督,他们出谋划策,他们就像是,自己种植园的负责人

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People need to start growing their own food and learning how to cook again.

人们需要开始种植自己的食物，然后学会怎样将其烹饪。

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Once it became true that people could raise food or gather food, or produce food for more than just themselves or their families, meant that people were free to do other things.

这些成为现实之后,人类不仅仅能为他们自己或家人,种植,收集或制造食物,也就是说人们可以有空来做别的事情

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He's going to ameliorate their conditions, he's going to make their slavery on his plantations so effective, so good, such a even joyous form of labor, that he will be doing God's work by improving slavery.

他会改善奴隶们的生活条件,他会让自己种植园的奴隶们,提高工作效率,优化管理模式,奴隶甚至是一种令人享受的工作,他会按照上帝的旨意提升奴隶的生活水平

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So they're encouraging in England for people to grow their own vegetables and fruit,

他们鼓励在英格兰的人种植自己的蔬菜和水果，

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