The country produce which passed through the hands of the husbandmen never got so far as their mouths.

经过农夫之手的乡土产品， 从未到过他们的口中。

Fan Ch'ih requested to be taught husbandry, the Master said, " I am not so good for that as an old husbandman."

樊迟请学稼，子曰：“吾不如老农。”

Enthusiasts have tried the experiment of turning husbandman; one of them writes of his experience in notable phrase.

热心人尝试过变农夫的实验；其中一位用著名的措辞写下了他的经历。

But as husbandmen have less leisure than shepherds, they are not so frequently employed in those pastimes.

但由于农夫的闲暇时间少于牧羊人， 因此他们并不经常从事这些消遣。

But whether it was advantageous to plant a new vineyard, was a matter of dispute among the ancient Italian husbandmen, as we learn from Columella.

但是，正如我们从 Columella 那里了解到的那样，种植新葡萄园是否有利是古代意大利农夫之间争论的问题。

Those improvements in husbandry, too, which the progress of arts and manufactures necessarily introduces, leave the husbandman as little leisure as the artificer.

艺术和制造业的进步必然带来的那些畜牧业的改进，也使农夫和工匠一样没有闲暇。

The ordinary pastimes of such husbandmen are the same as those of shepherds, and are in the same manner the images of war.

这种农夫的日常消遣与牧羊人的消遣一样， 同样是战争的形象。

It was only one substantial dish of meat (fit for the plain condition of a husbandman, ) in a dish of about four-and-twenty feet diameter.

这只是一个直径约四二十英尺的盘子里的一大盘肉（适合农夫的朴素条件）。

A shepherd has a great deal of leisure; a husbandman, in the rude state of husbandry, has some; an artificer or manufacturer has none at all.

牧羊人有很多闲暇；一个农夫，在粗野的耕作状态下，有一些；工匠或制造商根本没有。

It was a militia of shepherds and husbandmen, which, in time of war, took the field under the command of the same chieftains whom it was accustomed to obey in peace.

这是一支由牧羊人和农夫组成的民兵组织， 在战争时期， 他们在和平时期习惯于服从的同一首领的指挥下占领了战场。

If the campaign, too, should begin after seedtime, and end before harvest, both the husbandman and his principal labourers can be spared from the farm without much loss.

如果运动也应该在播种期之后开始，在收获期之前结束，那么农夫和他的主要劳动者都可以免于离开农场，而不会造成太大损失。

That is done for the sake of society, for a good many people can dwell in such houses, as the country dwellers are not necessarily husbandmen; though they almost all help in such work at times.

这样做是为了社会，因为很多人可以住在这样的房子里，因为乡下人不一定是农夫；尽管他们有时几乎都会帮忙做这样的工作。

If we only behold, " says he, " the actions of the husbandman in the seed time, when he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman.

他说，“农夫在播种时期的行为， 当他把许多好谷子丢到地里时， 我们会把他看作疯子而不是农夫。

Though a husbandman should be employed in an expedition, provided it begins after seedtime, and ends before harvest, the interruption of his business will not always occasion any considerable diminution of his revenue.

虽然一个农夫应该被雇用去远征，只要它在播种时间之后开始，在收获之前结束，他的生意中断并不总是会导致他的收入有任何显着的减少。

It is otherwise in the barbarous societies, as they are commonly called, of hunters, of shepherds, and even of husbandmen in that rude state of husbandry which precedes the improvement of manufactures, and the extension of foreign commerce.

在野蛮社会中，正如他们通常所说的那样，猎人社会、牧羊人社会，甚至在制造业改进和对外贸易扩展之前的原始畜牧业状态下的农夫社会，情况就不同了。

It was brought about by the irresistible superiority which the militia of a barbarous has over that of a civilized nation; which the militia of a nation of shepherds has over that of a nation of husbandmen, artificers, and manufacturers.

这是由于野蛮民族的民兵对文明民族的民兵具有不可抗拒的优势。一个牧羊人民族的民兵比一个农夫、工匠和制造商民族的民兵更胜一筹。

Agriculture, even in its rudest and lowest state, supposes a settlement, some sort of fixed habitation, which cannot be abandoned without great loss. When a nation of mere husbandmen, therefore, goes to war, the whole people cannot take the field together.

农业，即使在其最原始和最低级的状态下，也需要一个定居点，某种固定的住所，放弃它会造成巨大损失。故农夫之国出战，不能全民同征。