开垦土地

If a family was lucky enough to have a plow, it was made of wood. Preparing fields and raising crops with poor farm tools were a back-breaking job. Every member of the family had to do his best. Nobody was allowed to be idle and idleness was said to be a sin.

每天如此的生活，使他们必须练就强壮的臂膀，面对眼前那数不清的树木，要用自己的力量，和坚定的信念，去开垦属于自己的土地。

In accordance with this rule, it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King's Chapel.

新殖民地的开拓者们，不管他们的头脑中起初有什么关于人类品德和幸福的美妙理想，总要在各种实际需要的草创之中，忘不了划出一片未开垦的处女地充当墓地，再则出另一片土地来修建监狱。

The once inhospitable landscape is now ''.

那曾经荒凉的土地现在已经被开垦出来了。

The measure of property nature has well set by the extent of men's labour and the conveniencies of life: no man's labour could subdue, or appropriate all; nor could his enjoyment consume more than a small part; so that it was impossible for any man, this way, to intrench upon the right of another, or acquire to himself a property, to the prejudice of his neighbour, who would still have room for as good, and as large a possession (after the other had taken out his) as before it was appropriated.

财产权的尺度自然已经由人的劳动和生活便利所能扩展的范围决定好了。没有人的劳动能够开垦或者占有所有的土地；他的享用也仅仅只能消耗一小部分；所以，以这种方式，任何一个人不可能去侵占另一个人的权利，或者为他自己获得财产而损害他的邻人，他的邻人仍然拥有其占用之前一样好和一样大的选择空间。

Land-hungry peasants push up the hillsides.

缺少土地的农民开垦坡地。

After sitting a while longer, and musingwhat I should do in this case, I was not able to bear sitting inignorance longer; so setting up my ladder to the side of the hill,where there was a flat place, as I observed before, and thenpulling the ladder after me, I set it up again and mounted the topof the hill, and pulling out my perspective glass, which I hadtaken on purpose, I laid me down flat on my belly on the ground,and began to look for the place.

如果他的几位同胞从对岸一起过来，那是肯定不够吃的。据他说，他们那边还有十四个人活着。如果我们还要造条船，航行到美洲的一个基督教国家的殖民地去，这点粮食又怎么够全船的人一路上吃呢？因此，他对我说，他认为最好让他和星期五父子再开垦一些土地，把我能省下来的粮食全部做种子，通通播下去，等到再收获一季庄稼之后，再谈这个问题。

They start planting pinetree seeds into the field just plowed.

他们开始将松树种子播种到刚刚开垦的土地里。

The Algonquian chief, Powhatan, at first allowed the visitors to settle, build, and farm in his territory, but as more and more came, he grew tired of the colonists' expansion on his land.

亚拉冈昆的酋长包华德，起初准许造访者在他的领土上，殖民、建设、开垦，但愈来愈多的殖民者前来，他开始厌烦殖民者在他土地上无限扩张。

But these plant beds wedged into the Quartier Mombele – one of the unpaved slums of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo – are examples of what many aid experts believe could save hundreds of thousands of people from hunger and malnutrition: urban gardens in the developing world's fast-growing cities.

但是这些地镶嵌在Quartier Mombele地区里-这是刚果民主共和国在山林中开垦出来的首都金沙萨-的一处贫民窟-这些土地是个样板，许多援助专家相信这可以将成千上万的人摆脱饥荒和营养不良：在发展中国家成长最快的城市推行市区种植地。

They had the immense task of reclaiming all this land and rebuilding all their homes.

他们的任务艰巨，要开垦这片土地并重建家园。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。