So basically, the whole society was spending all of the time raising enough food just to support life and there was only 5% left over and that ended up being used in ways like this.

基本上,整个社会全部时间都被用于积累足量食物,这仅是为了维持生计,只剩下5%的时间,被用来建造金字塔,为法老服务

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This is impressive: he dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, and he did so to take laboring jobs, each time enacting a conflict between intellectual life and manual labor that would be a persistent and central theme of his poetry.

令人印象深刻的是，他从,达特茅斯学院和哈佛大学都辍学了,来劳作，每一次都在,脑力劳动和体力劳动间发生矛盾,这也是他的诗歌的核心主题。

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