So she sent a gadfly to bother the poor cow.

所以她派了一只牛蝇去打扰这只可怜的牛。

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To make matters worse, the soil on Cow Island was too poor for any serious agriculture.

更糟的是，岛上的土壤太差，不能耕种。

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Jack lives with his mother, they are very poor. One day Jack sells the cow for some beans. His mother is angry, but the beans are magic!

杰克跟他妈妈一起住，他们很穷。有一天，杰克把牛卖了来换取豆，他的妈妈知道后非常愤怒，可是那些是魔法豆！

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It's a big change in some of these very poor villages to get a cow.

奶牛对这些赤贫的村庄来说可是生财之道

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One of the reasons that the Reynolds women were so attracted to vanilla is that a single producing vanilla vine can support an entire Haitian family financially for a year, much as a cow might help a poor farmer subsist.

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Lacking title to his land patch or milk cow, and bedeviled by local bureaucrats from getting it, the poor man remains a squatter.

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That, combined with the poor attendances for the first two days, means this match will be no cash-cow for the ECB - though they have the consolation of staging international cricket on an almost non-stop basis until 20 September.

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