We grew cotton, sugar cane, corn, hogs1, chickens and had a large garden, but it didn't bring in much cash.So when I was 12, I got a parttime job on a dairy farm down the road, helping to milk cows.
我们种棉花、甘蔗、玉米,养猪、养鸡,还有一个大花园,但农场没办法让我们有多少收入,所以我在12岁时在马路前面不远的一个奶牛场里找了一份兼职工作——帮忙挤牛奶。
The birds jumped onto their trees, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment.
鸟儿跳到树上,动物们都在稻草上安顿下来,顷刻之间,整个农场都进入了梦乡。
We can pay a little on the farm and maybe put a few dollars down on the tractor, too.
我们可以花一点钱在农场上,也许还可以买台拖拉机。
On a visit to an insect farm, she greedily peels the wings and legs off a freeze-dried locust and crunches down with gusto.
在她参观一家昆虫农场时,她贪婪地剥下一只冻干的蝗虫的翅膀和腿,然后兴奋地吞下了肚。
Both men began life down on the farm and both quickly discovered they were more interested in engineering and building businesses than ploughing fields.
这两个人的确有些相似之处,他们都在农场长大,但后来又都发现比起种田,他们对建筑业和自主创业更感兴趣。
Over the past year prices for its farm exports have fallen, bringing down tax revenues.
过去几年由于出口农产品价格下降而导致税收下降。
There is a good chance they may never pin down the cause as people forget exactly what they ate weeks ago, contaminated food is thrown away and farm and factory equipment is disinfected.
很可能他们从一开始就没有去深根究底,就像人们完全忘记了几个星期前吃的,受污染的食物被抛在脑后,农场和工厂丝毫没有因此受到影响,照样生产。
In standstill traffic a few miles from Bethel, they parked the Impala, flagged down a van full of naked hippies, then walked the final stretch to Yasgur's farm.
在离贝瑟尔几英里的地方,车堵的走不动了,他们就把“黑斑羚”停了下来,搭上了一辆满载着裸身嬉皮士的货车,又步行了一段路程,才来到雅斯格的农场。
It would mean facing down the farm lobby to remove barriers to some of the planet's most protected rice.
这将意味着面对院外农业集团,从世界大米保护最严格的地方去除壁垒。
It's like the old song, How you going to keep them down on the farm once they've been to gay Paris?
就像老歌唱的那样,一旦人们到了热闹的巴黎,哪还能安心地呆在农场?
Three years ago the Cremaq farm was a failed experiment in growing cashews. Its barns were falling down and the scrub was reasserting its grip.
三年前Cremaq农场在这里进行腰果种植试验,结果以失败告终,剩下的只是破败废弃的谷仓和灌木丛生的荒地。
On a visit to an insect farm in Deurne in the south east Netherlands, she greedily peels the wings and legs off a freeze dried locust and crunches down with gusto.
在她参观荷兰东南部德尔讷的一家昆虫农场时,她贪婪地剥下一只冻干的蝗虫的翅膀和腿,然后兴奋地吞下了肚。
A cow called Yvonne, who escaped from a Bavarian farm after apparently sensing she was about to be slaughtered, has been tracked down after three months on the run.
一头名为伊冯娜的奶牛,在明显感觉到她要被宰杀之后从一个巴伐利亚的养殖场逃了出来,在奔跑了三个月后被追查到。
Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farm house far down the road--a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear.
接着,路尽头一所农舍附近响起狗的汪汪声,那是一声长长的哀鸣,似乎是因恐惧而发出的声音。
The most famous have distinctive round shapes, appearing from a distance like flying saucers that have plopped down in the middle of farm fields.
其中最著名的具有特殊的筒形结构,从远处看就像是突然降落在农田中的飞碟一般。
After the disorder of the state farm and when their house burned down they found forces to stop drinking.
在经过了国有农场的无序状态之后,当他们的房屋被一场大火烧毁,他们发现自己必须戒酒。
Although stocks of most farm commodities remain alarmingly low, and demand continues to grow, the increasing evidence of a strong supply response has helped to push prices down.
虽然大多数农产品的库存保持在令人担忧的低位,而需求也在不断上升,但越来越多的证据显示供应充足,这已经推动价格下降了。
A little way down the pasture there was a Knoll that commanded a view of most of the farm.
一条小路通向牧场旁边的一座小山,在那里几乎可以看到整个牧场。
Most Canada-EU goods trade is already tariff-free, which means the barriers left standing, such as those on farm products, are the hardest to knock down.
大多数加拿大与欧盟的货物贸易已经免关税,这意味着障碍依然存在,例如农产品方面的,那是最难解决的。
The men and the women had to do all their work before sunset. After the sun went down, it was too dark to do farm work or housework.
男人和女人必须在太阳下山前做完所有的工作, 太阳下山后, 天就黑了, 不能再做农活和家务了。
As the population soared, more and more forest was cut down to increase farm and grazing land.
随着人口激增,越来越多的森林被砍倒后变成农田和牧场。
For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices.
比如,毫无疑问,农业成本将会增加,因而减少农业收入,驱升产品价格。
Prices of tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers keep going down, not to mention celery and green onions. They're better off rotting on the farm.
西红柿、黄瓜、辣椒价格都在持续下跌,更别说那些容易烂在地里的芹菜和葱了。
He plans to start up a farm near his house in Maine, in case the supply chain that provides America with food breaks down for lack of fuel.
他计划从他缅因州家旁边的农场开始。以防供应美国的食物链因缺油而中断。
Indeed, the evidence is that many human infections-malaria, measles and influenza, for example-stem from the crowded living that came about when people settled down to farm.
事实上,许多人际感染,如疟疾和流感都起源自人类开始定居农耕后的群居生活。
The birds jumped onto their perches, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment.
鸟跳上巢,动物们在稻草上安身,很快整个庄园进入梦乡。
Alan Graham from County Down, Northern Ireland had agreed to let the record-setting star film a music video on his farm.
北爱尔兰邓恩郡的艾伦·格雷厄姆同意让这名唱片销售破记录的歌星到他的农场拍摄音乐录影带。
None of this seemed to be in Mr Dube's future when he was born, the sickly first son of a single mother on a run-down farm in East Transvaal.
所有这一切都不是杜布先生与生俱来的命运——南非德兰士瓦省东部(East Transvaal)的一个农场里,单亲妈妈所生育的第一个生病的儿子!
None of this seemed to be in Mr Dube's future when he was born, the sickly first son of a single mother on a run-down farm in East Transvaal.
所有这一切都不是杜布先生与生俱来的命运——南非德兰士瓦省东部(East Transvaal)的一个农场里,单亲妈妈所生育的第一个生病的儿子!
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