The farmers worked the land until the sun went down.

农夫们在田里干活，直到日落。

So we were already here continuing to work the land, continuing to be able to grow food.

所以我们已经在这里，继续耕种，继续能够种植食物。

Men who were physically stronger worked the land while women stayed closer to home and cared for children.

男性体力强壮，在田地里耕种，而女性则呆在家里照看孩子。

He has farmed for almost 40 years. He works the land that his family has owned even longer.

他已开办农场近40年，他所耕种的土地是祖辈流传下来的。

But this way of working the land is at risk of dying out.

但是这种耕种土地的方式有消失的危险。

Many people were forced to give up working the land.

【land】许多人被迫放弃种地。

To put this in perspective, in 1520, 80% of the English population worked the land.

从这个角度来看，在 1520 年，80% 的英国人在土地上工作。

The people took their pitchforks in hand and worked the land, sharing the food they produced.

人们手里拿着干草叉，耕种土地，分享他们生产的食物。

HAD NO REAL OPTIONS IN LIFE BUT TO WORK THE LAND IN RETURN FOR PROTECTION AND ENOUGH FOOD TO SURVIVE.

生活中没有真正的选择，只能耕种土地以换取保护和足够的食物来生存。

Back in 2008, both sides had come to an agreement where Ethiopian farmers would till and work the land here while Sudan would retain administrative authority over it.

早在 2008 年，双方就达成协议，由埃塞俄比亚农民耕种这里的土地，而苏丹则保留对这片土地的行政管理权。

These individuals had to promise their allegiance  to a local warlord, who would provide them with security and the means needed to work the land  and survive.

这些人必须向当地的军阀保证效忠，军阀会为他们提供安全以及在土地上耕作和生存所需的手段。

The Romans also invented the plantation, using mass numbers of slaves to work the land on giant farms called latifundia, so called because they were not fun.

罗马人还发明了种植园，使用大量奴隶在称为 latifundia 的巨大农场上耕种土地， 之所以这样称呼是因为它们并不有趣。

And when listening to a farmer whose family has worked the land here for generations, it's clear that climate change is making the fight against poverty even harder.

当听一位祖祖辈辈在这里耕种土地的农民讲述时，很明显，气候变化正在使与贫困的斗争更加艰难。

Here, beneath the silver birches and apple trees, Tolstoy, the lord of the manor, became Tolstoy, the peasant, the man who worked the land as fervently as he worked the quill.

在这里，在白桦树和苹果树下，庄园主托尔斯泰变成了农民托尔斯泰，他像使用羽毛笔一样热情地耕种土地。

Feudalism was also an economic system, with the peasants working the land and keeping some of their production to feed themselves while giving the rest to the landowner whose land they worked.

封建主义也是一种经济制度，农民在土地上耕作， 保留部分产品来养活自己， 同时将其余部分交给他们耕种土地的地主。

Share-cropping made it possible for blacks to work the land for themselves for the first time in their lives. But it also made it difficult for them to earn enough money to improve their condition.

共享种植使黑人有生以来第一次可以为自己耕种土地，但这也使得他们很难挣到足够的钱来改善他们的状况。

They typically did not have a lot of money so to go and to work the land, as we may say, and then to be able to own it was a great incentive.

他们通常没有很多钱， 所以去耕种土地， 正如我们所说，然后能够拥有它是一个很大的动力。

They wanted to establish themselves permanently, to work the land, and to preserve their culture, religion and language, and this was a crucial factor in the survival and development of English in North America.

他们想永久定居，耕种土地，保存自己的文化、宗教和语言，这是英语在北美得以生存和发展的关键因素。

For this purpose he had decided not to work the land himself, but, by renting it at a low price to the peasants, to make it possible for them to live independent of the landlord.

为此，他决定不亲自耕种土地，而是以低价租给农民，使他们能够独立于地主生活。