Victorian and early-20th-century domestics were the largest single group of workers in Britain after agricultural labourers.

维多利亚及二十世纪初期的英国，佣人是继劳农群体后最大的工人群体。

And they were eaten by agricultural labourers – workers doing physical farm work during harvest time – the weeks in autumn when crops like wheat are cut and collected from the fields.

农业体力劳动者吃馅饼，体力劳动者是指在收获季节从事体力劳动的工人。收货季节是秋天从田地里收割像小麦这样的农作物的那几个星期。

The interest of this quotation lies in the fact that, all unconsciously, so intelligent a man as Hawthorne had been reduced to the mental state of our agricultural labourers in revolt against the country life.

这段引文的有趣之处在于，在不知不觉中，像霍桑这样聪明的人已经沦为我们反抗乡村生活的农业工人的精神状态。