这是一本赞扬乡下生活的书。

It's a book in praise of country life.

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当然，在乡下生活可能会很艰难。

Of course, life in the country can be pretty tough.

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为了身体健康，他来到乡下生活。

He came to live in the country to search after health.

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He described provincials as being dominated by routine and monotony in their small towns, that they're all the same, he wrote, which is obviously not the case.

他把乡下人描绘成在小城镇中,过着千篇一律的单调生活,他写道,他们全是一个模子里刻出来的,情况显然不是这样

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And,certainly,the way that provincial people--including myself, and we're legally residents of France, and we live in Ardeche and I'm proud of it-- view Parisians is often with that same kind of contempt that the Parisians look at us.

当然,乡下人包括我自己的生活方式,我们是法国的合法居民,我们住在阿尔代什并以此为傲,在看待巴黎人时也会带有某种轻蔑,就好像巴黎人看我们那样

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