This was not his land but back in those days it was not unusual to barter with the neighbours to worked it for them so he could grow the vegetables that he loved.

尽管那块田地是属于祖父的邻居，但在那个时候，邻居之间作实物交易是很常见的，所以祖父也能在那块田地种上自己喜爱的农作物。

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I love the old barter system, it's high time to bring it back.

我喜欢旧的易货制度，现在是非常适合的时候把他们带回来了！

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"Clearly when you back out the barter transactions, as well as the three-year dot-com ad contracts that are now expiring, advertising wasn't a viable business model, " says Henry Asher, president of Northstar Group, a New York-based investment manager that holds the parent company's shares.

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Sometimes the sellers fall back on the old fashioned system of barter.

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