然而，19世纪的一项法律强制铁路公司每天开一趟便宜的火车，这种火车在每个车站都停，每英里只花一便士。

However, a law in the 19th century forced railway companies to run one cheap train a day which stopped at every station and cost only a penny a mile.

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倒着威士忌，她说，一花一世界。

The whisky flowed. Every object, she said, told a story.

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直到20世纪70年代，埃及农民还得花半天时间干挑水灌溉这些繁重的劳动。 如今，农民灌溉用柴油泵，犁地用拖拉机，小麦脱粒用机器。

Farmers who until the 1970s spent half their working day on the back-breaking labour of lifting irrigation water now use diesel pumps, plough with tractors and thresh their wheat by machine.

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