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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in some ways, one has to admit also there maybe a grain, if not more than a grain of truth in what he seems to be saying.

我们多么不喜欢他，但必需承认,他可能有点儿道理，但就那么点儿,关于他所说的话。

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There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

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