Stuff that the eighteenth century farmer made for him and herself now you bought from a peddler or you bought from a store in town.

8世纪的农民,自给自足的东西,现在他们从商贩那儿购买,或者到城里的商店购买

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He worked at all sorts of jobs: in factories, at a mill, on a newspaper. He was a schoolteacher, and of course he was a farmer, too, when his grandfather gave him a farm to work, which he did, for ten years in Derry, New Hampshire.

他做过各种工作，在工厂，磨坊，报社，他也当过教师，他是一个农民，他祖父给了他一块地，十年里他都在新汉普夏羊劳作。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选