Once upon a time two Peasants attempted to pass each other, and their sledges became entangled.

从前，两个农夫试图迎面而过时，他们驾的雪橇却交错在了一起。

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Once upon a time two peasants attempted to pass each other and their sledges became entangled.

有一次，两个农夫正要交臂而过，他们的雪橇却勾。

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The two peasants labored hard on the unproductive soil to rear their little ones, and each family had four.

两家的主人都辛勤地在贫瘠的土地上劳作，他们各自需要抚养四个孩子。

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The straightness of his back came from something else: that on his third attempt at escape from prison camp he was beaten senseless, and his skull and neck broken, by two Breton peasants with pitchforks, and was invalided out in exchange for a U-boat commander.

ECONOMIST: M.R.D. Foot