My parents left their home village in the mountains and settled in Chitwan, and once there our family upgraded itself to a middle-class peasant family.

我父母离开在山区的村庄，定居在奇旺，在那里我家逐渐成为了中农家庭。

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But the owners and designers of urban gardens didn't appreciate the vernacular peasant landscapes, which were associated with the disheveled working class.

但是城市花园的主人和设计者无法欣赏这样的农村景观，它们乡气十足，往往与杂乱的劳动阶级联系在一起。

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Like the peasant girls whose foot-binding crippled them, it has gradually been adapted by the minority urban upper class and transformed into arti? Cial decorative gardens.

就像因缠足而残疾的农村姑娘，这种美学逐渐被少数的城市上层阶级接纳，并摇身变成了人工装饰出来的庭院。

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It reached right to the heart of the Empire, to India, a country she never visited but whose problems, of famine, poor sanitation, and oppression of the peasant class by unscrupulous landowners, were a major concern in the latter part of her life.

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They may seem less brutal than the events in the Highlands but the Lowland clearances were just as effective at displacing country dwellers: by 1820 an entire social class of cottars - peasant farmers who had a traditional claim on land in return for rent or service to a landlord and who made up a third of the population - simply disappeared.

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In this satirical essay, Swift criticizes the relationship between landowner and peasant, the attitude toward the working class of the time, and even some behaviors of the people for whom he was fighting.

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