The young go away to towns and cities, leaving us old people to work on the land.

年轻人离开家去了城镇，留下我们这些上了年纪的人种田。

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Farmers work on the land.

农民在土地上干活。

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The prisoners of war are farmed out to work on the land.

战俘被作为劳力出租在地里干活。

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The government says it will now work with a new umbrella organization called the Civil Society Coalition on Land to push ahead on land rights issues including biofuels, environmental management, and sanitation.

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Determined that her son would not work on the land, Burns' mother sent her son to the Ayrshire village of Kirkoswald.

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After all, hardly anyone really lives in the country any more and a mere fraction of the population work on the land.

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People were killed or worked and starved to death, as the Khmer Rouge emptied cities and forced Cambodians to work on the land.

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