What made matters worse was that its proliferation coincided with sweeping changes in agriculture and a massive shift from sheep farming to dairying.

让事情更糟的是，它的肆虐生长正值当时农业的彻底改变及由牧羊业向乳品业的巨大转变之际。

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Arable sheep farming went out of fashion.

靠农业养羊不再风行了。

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It's difficult to make sheep farming pay here.

养羊业在这里难有收益。

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Starting in the late 18th Century and running into the 19th Century, the clearances saw townships occupied by generations of families cleared to make way for large-scale sheep farming and the rearing of deer.

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Starting in the late 18th Century and running into the 19th Century, the Highland Clearances saw townships occupied by generations of families cleared to make way for large-scale sheep farming and the rearing of deer.

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Thanks to revenues from fishing licences, Falklanders are no longer poor folk dependent on a dying sheep-farming industry.

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