They ended up moving to a small town and no longer engaged in subsistence agriculture, if his parents had, or his grandparents.

最后他们移居到一个小镇上,不再把持小农经营,不像他爸妈,或者祖父一辈

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Manchester, which was a small town, becomes this enormous city, and Liverpool becomes ever more important.

曼彻斯特从一个小镇变成了庞大的城市,而利物浦更成为了一方重镇

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