My life would've gone better had I chosen to become a farmer instead of chosen to become a doctor.

我的生活本来会变得更好,如果我选择成为农民而不是医生的话。

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You got to be a farmer to understand these things-- not everything that you try works.

你要成为一位农民就必须理解,你所从事事业的方方面面

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In addition to Jenner, there was a farmer named Benjamin Jesty, who recognized that farmers, being in contact with cows, didn't get disease as often as non-farmers did.

除了詹纳,还有个叫本杰明?加斯特的农民,他发现与奶牛接触的农民,不像其他人那样容易患天花

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Or if I decided to become an artist or a scholar or a beach bum or a farmer, how much better off or worse off would I have been?

如果我决定成为一名艺术家或学者,一个流浪汉或一个农夫，我会更幸福还是更不幸？

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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。

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We got used to hearing it that way, so it's kind of-- every time, you know, Schumann wants to write about the merry farmer-- But every time Chopin wants to write a funeral march-- And there's a tendency also-- minor low, major high, kind of thing.

我们早已习惯听到这种模式,因此它算...,要知道,每次,舒曼想写关于快乐的农夫的曲子,而肖邦总要写葬礼进行曲,还有一种趋向,小调低沉,大调高昂之类的

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Well, if you're a poor farmer, you don't know what else to do.

如果你是一个贫困的农民,你不知道自己能干什么

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Most of us don't know enough to know with a high degree of accuracy how things would have gone had I decided to become a farmer instead of a philosopher.

多数人了解得都不够,无法更确切地知道,如果我成为农夫而非哲学家,到底会有怎样的人生。

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Well, now one of the things farmers in history discovered is that it's very hard to do well as a farmer if all you do is grow the crops, because people normally don't use what you grow in the form in which you grow it.

关于农民我们在历史上能够得知的一件事是,当好农民很困难,特别是只种农作物的农民,因为人们一般不会将,你从地里种出来的东西留作种子

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