pioneering英语期末复习翻译

1.I

suspect

not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do.

It takes a couple of special qualities. One is a tolerance for

solitude

. Because we are

so busy and on such a tight

budget

, we don't entertain much. During the growing

season there is no time for socializing anyway. Jim and Emily are

involved

in school

activities, but they too spend most of their time at home.

我想，不是所有热爱乡村的人

都会乐意过我们这种生活的。

这种生活需要一些特殊的素质。

< br>其一是耐得住寂寞。

由于我们如此

忙碌，手头又紧，我们 很少请客。在作物生长季节，根本就没工夫参加社交活动。吉米和埃米莉

虽然参加学校的 各种活动，

但他俩大多数时间也呆在家里。

The other

requirement

is energy

—

a lot of it. The way to make

self-sufficiency

work

on a small scale

is to

resist

the

temptation

to buy a tractor and other expensive

laborsaving

devices

. Instead, you

do the work yourself. The only

machinery

we own (not counting the lawn mower) is

a little three-

horsepower

rotary cultivator

and a 16-inch chain saw.

另一项要求是体力

——

相当大的体力。

小范围里实现自给自足的途径是抵制诱惑，

不去购置拖拉机和其他昂贵的节

省劳力的机械。相反，你要自己动手 。我们仅有的机器（不包括割草机）是一台

3

马力的小型

旋转式耕耘机以及一架

16

英寸的链锯。

this stop was only part of a much larger

mission

for me.

Josiah Henson is but

one name on a long list of

courageous

men and women who together

forged

the

Underground Railroad, a secret

web

of escape routes and safe houses that they

used to liberate slaves from the American South. Between 1820 and 1860, as many

as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.

但此地只是我 所承担的繁重使命的

一处停留地。乔赛亚

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亨森只是一长串无所畏惧的男女名单中的一个名字，这些人共同创建了这

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