I mean, for one thing, the project established a lot of…uh like community art centers and galleries in places like rural areas where people hadn't really had access to the arts.

我的意思是，首先，这个项目在一些地方建立了很多……嗯，社区艺术中心和画廊之类，比如在农村地区，那里的人们没有机会接触艺术。

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Why should the lot of rural workers be so miserable?

为什么有那么多农村劳工的生活如此困窘呢？

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Another report cited legal complications because Zhang's brother had sold a small portion of the lot to a rural resident who legally couldn't buy urban land.

另一报道由于张长福弟弟将部分宅基地出售给无权购买农村宅基地的人，由此引发法律纠纷。

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"A lot of women are coming in victims of agents that go out to rural areas and promise them wonderful jobs,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

As a result you have a lot of rural Levites who are out of business now, a lot of people who would have officiated at local shrines, and they're out of business: that probably explains the fact that Deuteronomy makes special provision for the Levites and includes them in its... in legislation, sort of social welfare legislation.

因此许多乡下的利未人丢掉了生计，许多在当地主持地方祭祀的人，也丢掉了生计：这也许解释了为什么,申命记中特别为利未人提供了给养,并把它写进了它的立法中，某种社会福利立法。

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You know, a lot of people like to be in the city, but I grew up in rural environments,

你知道，很多人都想在城市中生活，但我是在村庄里长大的，

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There's a big blue-collar population, there are a lot of rural areas.

NPR: Looking Ahead to Indiana and N. Carolina Primaries

Major TOM BRYANT (Spokesman, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division): About a month ago, we started receiving intelligence from our Iraqi partners, reports that indicated a number of insurgents operating in this area northeast of Samarra, a very isolated, rural area, a lot of farms, a couple of small villages, but kind of a no man's land.

NPR: Ambitious U.S.-Iraqi Air Assault Targets Insurgents

According to John Knight and Ramani Gunatilaka of Oxford University, they no longer compare their lot with the rural folk they left behind, but aspire to urban standards of living.

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