One man waited for five hours, only to buy one packet of pitta bread to feed his large family for a day.
一个男人为了买一袋皮塔面包排了五个小时的队,那是他们一个大家庭一天的火食。
A man who could sustain a large extended family of several wives, children, grandchildren and other kin, along with the flocks to feed them, was considered rich.
一个男人,他能够承担好几个妻子、子女、孙子女和其他亲属的大家族的生活,可以成群地供养他们,这样的男人被认为是有财富的。
At the end of the Second World War, it took the British working man about six hours of Labour a day to feed a family of four; a figure which has now dropped by two thirds.
在第二次世界大战末期,英国工人每天要劳动六小时来养活四口之家;这个数字如今已经降低了三分之二。
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