Interpret the
following into Chinese。
热身词语
retire a rich
man:have enough money to stop working and
still be considered rich
start out:begin
the endeavor
kinda offset
the acreage:with a bigger farm, more product
can be produced, and thus the cost of time, tractors, etc. can be made
less of an impact (this is to offset) on total profitability
margin:amount
of profit compared to cost
For a farmer, the return on your investment
is so small now that it isn't really worthwhile.A younger person cannot
start farming unless they have help from the father or somebody.'Cause you
have to be almost able to retire a rich man to start out.The only way the
farmers are making it today is the ones in business keep getting bigger,
to kinda offset the acreage, the margin income.I don't know what's gonna
happen in the future.I'm afraid its gonna get rough in time to come.
well off:rich
tractor:vehicle
with large wheels used in farming
City people, they think you're well
off.When they drive by, I hear a lot of comments, 'cause most of my
friends are city people.They drive by and see a big tractor and things
settin' down.They envy me, but they don't know what's behind all that.
crop:items
to be grown on the farm
harvest:collect
the fully grown items
figure down:work
out in great detail
beat:collect
the crop before it is damaged by bad weather
tense:make
nervous or uneasy
up:a
word commonly used with "tense" (to tense up), and other words,
such as "loosen" (to loosen up), "freshen" (to freshen
up), "grow" (to grow up), etc.
Farming, it's such a gamble.The weather and
the prices, and everything that goes with it.You don't have too many good
days.It scares when you see how many working days you actually have.You
have so many days to get the crop planted and the same in the fall to
harvest it. They have this all figured down to the weather and it's just a
few days.You try to beat the weather.It tenses you up.Whether we needed
rain or we didn't need rain, it affects you in different ways.I have seen
a time when you're glad to hear the thunder and lightning.Then again, I've
wished I didn't hear it.
ya:you
moisture:water
content
git:get
Weather will make ya or break ya.The crops
have to have enough moisture.If they don't have enough, they hurt.If you
have too much, it hurts.You take it like you git.There's nothing you can
do about it.You just don't think too much about it.My wife says it doesn't
bother me too much. Of course, you still worry...
ulcer:an
ulcer is a sore area on or inside a part of your body which is very
painful and may bleed
management
end:issues related to management or
governance
I don't believe farmers have as much ulcers
as business people 'cause their life isn't quite as fast. But I'll say
there will be more as times goes on. 'Cause farming is changing more. It's
more a business now. It's getting to be a big business. It's not the labor
any more, it's the management end of it.
live with:accept
as part of life or a life situation
wore down:persistently
tired and uninspired
Your day doesn't end.A farmer can't do
like, say, a doctor-go out of town for the weekend. He has to stay with
it. That's just one of the things you have to learn to live with. I'd say
a majority of the time a farmer, when he comes in at night and goes to
bed, he's tired enough he's not gonna have trouble sleepin'. Of course,
he'll get wore down.
store:save
in a secure place
combine:a
machine used in farming that threshes and cleans grain while moving across
a field
planter:a
machine used in farming that automates the process of planting seeds in
the field
We'll soon be storing the fall
harvest.Machinery and a lot of equipment and everything ready to go when
the crops mature. That's the big problem: machinery. Combine, you're
speaking of twenty thousand dollars. And the eight-row planter for the
spring, that's expensive. It's such a large investment for what small
return you really get out of it. You won't use it but a month or two out
of the year.
eighty-acre:eighty
acres in size
My father-in-law helps me an awful lot in
the spring and a little in the fall.He drives the tractor for me. My
daughter, she drives a tractor when school is out.When I was home there on
the farm, there was five children, three boys, and we were on an
eighty-acre farm. It took all of us, my father and three boys.You can see
the difference machinery plays in it.
take over:assume/start
the jobs (left vacant by retiring farmers)
originate:be
born and raised at
The number of farmers are getting less
every day and just seems like it's getting worse every year.The younger
ones aren't taking over.The majority of the people originated from the
farm years ago.But it's been so long ago that the young ones now don't
realize anything about the farm.What goes with it or anything like
that.The gamble that the farmer takes.
The city people, when they go to the
grocery store and the price of meat is raised, they jump up and down.They
don't realize what all is behind that.They're thinking of their own
self.They don't want to put up that extra money-which I don't blame them
either.The same way when I go to buy a piece of equipment.I go jump up and
down.
outlaw:make
illegal
end:perspective/outlook
And chemicals in farming, it's getting to
be quite expensive.It seems as though we can't farm without it.They're
trying to outlaw a lot of 'em, but I don't know.From my end of it, I'd
hate to be without 'em.Seems as though if we didn't have chemicals, we
wouldn't have crops.It seems like the bugs and the weeds would just about
take care of 'em if we didn't have the chemicals.But I don't know ... on
the other end, either ... whether it's good for our country or not.
organic
farming:a type of farming that uses only
natural ingredients and is environmentally conscious
operator:organization
What do you call these-organic farming?They
have a lot of good points, but I never did see a large organic
farm.They're just more or less small operators.I don't think you can do it
on a large scale enough to be feeding a nation.You can see many small
organic farms.They used to call 'em truck farmers.They had routes to town
and deliver produce and like that.He more or less retailed his product to
individual homes.He just couldn't get big enough, just like everybody
else.
spray:treat
with a chemical
blight:a
plant disease that results in withering without rotting
fungicide:a
chemical agent that destroys fungi
They're using airplanes more all the
time.We had our corn sprayed this year by a plane-for blight.You hire a
plane, he furnishes the material, and he does it for so much an acre.We
had it sprayed twice-with fungicide.
punch a clock:work
according to a fixed schedule
When you get a good crop, that's more or
less your reward. If you weren't proud of your work, you wouldn't have no
place on the farm. 'Cause you don't work by the hour. And you put in a lot
of hours, I tell ya. You wouldn't stay out here till dark and after if you
were punchin' a clock. If you didn't like your work and have pride in it,
you wouldn't do that.
lonesome:lonely,
feeling dejection from being alone
You're driving a tractor all day long, you
don't talk to anyone. You think over a lot of things in your mind, good
and bad. You're thinking of a new piece of equipment or renting more land
or buying or how you gonna get through the day. I can spend all day in the
field by myself and I've never been lonesome. Sometimes I think it's nice
to get out by yourself.
confined:trapped-feeling
smelly:having
an unpleasant odor
odor:aroma,
smell or scent
The grass is greener on the other side of
the fence, they say. When I got out of high school I worked one summer in
a factory in Evansville. I didn't like it. I've always been glad I worked
that one summer. I know what it is to work in a factory for a little
while.The money part of it's good, but the atmosphere, confined.The air
and everything like that.I wasn't used to a smelly factory.They have a
certain odor. You don't have it out in the field.
Purdue:Purdue
University, a large university in Indiana
make:be
successful as
I might say I've been real lucky in
farming.My wife has helped me an awful lot. She's worked ever since we've
been married. My girl, she likes it and loves to get out on the tractor.
Our boy really worked. He liked the farm and worked from the time he was
old enough until he left.He graduated from Purdue last spring.From
observing him from the time he grew up, I would say he'd make a good
farmer.He's in Georgia now.He's in management training.He realized he
could make more money in some other position than he can farming.I hope he
isn't putting money ahead of what hereally wants to do.He says he likes
what he's doin', so... It seems like if they once get out and go to
college, there's very few of 'em do come back.They realize that as far as
the future and the money could be made from farming, it just wasn't
there.So that was one thing that turned his mind away from it. Of course,
he can always change. I'm hoping ...
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