It used to be a farm village.

它过去只是个农村。

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At one time it used to be a farm village.

过去一段时间那里曾是农村。

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At one time it used to be a farm village. Later it became an industrial city.

过去一段时间那里曾是农村，后来它变成了一个工业城市。

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He led a squad of Marines in Marjah, a farm village crisscrossed by irrigation canals.

WSJ: When the Fighting Stops: Troops Coming Home from Afghanistan

During interludes, the women playfully mime vignettes reflecting life in a farm or fishing village, including treading on roof tiles, unrolling a mat, catching a mouse or tying herrings.

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Kopic is a 25-year-old entrepreneur who grew up on a farm in Viljevo, Croatia, a village surrounded by fields of corn, wheat and soybeans, and plenty of goats.

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