They cut it with long sharp scythes, or with reaping machines.

它们用尖锐的镰刀或收割工具剪断杂草。

In fact, it had all the main parts of the reaping machines we use on our farms today.

事实上，它拥有我们今天在农场使用的所有收割机器的主要部分。

After many trials he sent out word one day to the farmers that he had made a reaping machine.

经过多次试验，有一天他向农民们发话说，他已经制造了一台收割机器。

The reaping machine rattled and clattered as Cyrus Hall McCormick drove it out of the barn and into the field.

赛勒斯·霍尔·麦考密克把收割机从谷仓里开到地里，收割机嘎嘎作响。

Several Englishmen had invented reaping machines, all of which had had only a single defect — they would not reap.

几个英国人发明了收割机， 所有这些机器都只有一个缺陷——它们不会收割。

Jolting and jerking from side to side, the reaping machine cut the grain in such irregular fashion that Farmer Ruff ordered Cyrus Hall McCormick to stop the horses and cease ruining his field of wheat.

收割机来回颠簸，不规则地割谷子，农夫拉夫命令赛勒斯霍尔麦考密克停下马匹，停止毁坏麦田。