Compared to the easy life of the hunter, with plenty of game around, and where one decent kill could feed a family for a week, that of a crop farmer was painful and arduous.

猎人的日子比较清闲，他们周围猎物充足，打一个像样的猎物就够一家人吃一星期，而日子在种地的那里就辛苦费劲得多。

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Brandt, 49, has been a hunter since age 14, and said roughly 20 years ago, when winter sea ice became too thin to support dogsleds, seal hunting ceased to be a sustainable way of life here.

49岁的布兰德从14岁就开始打猎，他说，大约20年前，当冬天海上的冰变得太薄，不再能够承受狗拉雪橇以后，猎海豹不再是这里一种持续的生活方式。

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If a family of hunter-gatherers were dropped into this life, they would think of it as a literal heaven.

要是把一个游牧家族投进这样的生活当中，他们会认为这是不折不扣的天堂。

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The change from a hunter-gatherer to farming way of life is what defines the start of the neolithic age.

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On the other hand, it brought us fewer homicides (one of the main causes of death for hunter-gatherers), a sense of spirituality, refuge from the uncertainties of the wandering life, and the leisure to develop science and art.

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