西方农民满怀信心地借了钱，他们期待经济扩张会使农产品价格保持在高位，因此在贷款到期时很容易偿还。

Western Farmers borrowed with the confident expectation that the expanding economy would keep farm prices high, thus making it easy to repay loans when they fell due.

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如果保持低房租的话，你可以节省许多钱并且将它花费在其他更重要的事情上(譬如还债)。

If you keep your rent low, you can save more and spend more on other, more important, things (like paying off debts).

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1040美元：那就是托马斯·韦勒为了使自己的油箱在7月份保持慢慢的所必须支付的钱。

One thousand forty dollars: That's how much Thomas Weller shelled out to keep his gas tank full in July.

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So the legal situation was set up to try to keep the wife's ownership as part of a different family, and so her money didn't go to her husband, and his money didn't go to her.

所以立法的本意是,保持妻子所有权于另一个家庭，这样她的钱就不会流到丈夫手中，丈夫的钱也不会流到她手中。

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