One hot afternoon, a poor farmer was digging his field.

一个炎热的下午，一个贫穷的农民在挖地。

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A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apples he grew.

一个贫穷的农夫有一个朋友，这个朋友因其种的美味的苹果而出名。

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There once was a poor farmer who had four sons.

从前有一个贫苦的农夫，他有四个儿子。

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Well, if you're a poor farmer, you don't know what else to do.

如果你是一个贫困的农民,你不知道自己能干什么

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In other words, I doubt the poor farmer or school teacher received any of it.

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"Evita, " which opens Christmas Day, is a screen opera about the life of Eva Peron, the daughter of a poor farmer who rose to power as the first lady of Argentina's President Juan Peron in the 1940s.

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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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