Members of poor peasant families spun or wove cloth and linens at home for scant remuneration in an attempt to supplement meager family income.

贫穷农民家庭的成员在家纺织布和亚麻以挣得很少的报酬，弥补微薄的家庭收入。

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Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie.

冉阿让生在布里的一个贫农家里。

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The poor peasant had to work hard to raise his family.

那可怜的农民得辛苦干活来养家。

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The public sector expanded only in the 1950s, after a century of astonishing economic growth driven by free trade and free markets (from 1850 to 1950, average incomes multiplied eightfold, as a poor peasant society was transformed into one of the world's richest countries).

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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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And with 90% of the population in peasant agriculture, most Bhutanese remain poor.

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