You might even see the farmers sometimes who brought the food into market, and that was certainly true in earlier days.

有时候你甚至能在市场看到,农民在贩卖他们的农作物,过去的确是这样的

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She said, we have it now at Swiss Re and, of course, The World Bank sponsors crop insurance for farmers.

她说,我们公司推出了农作物保险业务,而且世界银行也向农户提供保险补贴

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They have an agricultural revolution, investment in commercialized agriculture, and increase in the production in rural areas.

英国也进行了农业革命,他们还对商品化的农作物进行投资,使得乡村地区的产量有了很大的提高

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So it was a major change in human evolution where people started raising animals in large groups or started growing plants in large amounts.

这在人来演化史上是个巨大的变革,人类开始大规模饲养动物,或是大量种植农作物

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you have to generate What do you get when you mix two agricultural things?

你必须去生产,当你将两种农作物结合起来你会得到什么

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So, wouldn't you think that farmers would want to buy crop insurance from this Swiss company?

难道你们不认为农民应该希望从,瑞士再保险那里购买农作物保险吗

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This means that all the area surrounding that Fairview Gardens was mainly farmland back in the 1950s, all growing food, probably a fair amount of it being eaten locally by people.

美景花园的整个周边地区,在上世纪50年代基本上都是耕地,都长着农作物,其中很大一部分被当地人消费掉

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So economically it meant more-- it made more sense to eat meat under those circumstances, but of course the meat didn't exist in all places of the world, so some people were dependent on plants.

因此,从经济角度看,在那样的环境中,食肉更加合理,当然肉类并不是世界各地到处都有,因此,有些人们就依赖于农作物

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Well, now one of the things farmers in history discovered is that it's very hard to do well as a farmer if all you do is grow the crops, because people normally don't use what you grow in the form in which you grow it.

关于农民我们在历史上能够得知的一件事是,当好农民很困难,特别是只种农作物的农民,因为人们一般不会将,你从地里种出来的东西留作种子

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I was standing at the World Economic Forum at one of our lunch things and a young woman approached from Swiss Re, which is the Swiss Reinsurance Company, and she said she wanted my ideas on how to sell crop insurance in Africa.

有一次,在世界经济论坛的午餐会上,一位瑞士再保险的年轻女士找到了我,她公司的全称是瑞士再保险公司,她说她想知道我关于,如何在非洲出售农作物保险的意见

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Serfs who are compelled to work the land, or in some places even slaves, well, they have no incentive, put aside the question even of capacity, to invest capital for the purpose of improving the size and quality of the their crops, their trees, their vines.

那些被强迫耕种土地的农奴,或者是那些在其他地方直接成为奴隶的人,刨除能动性因素,农场主们,没有任何理由投资钱财,去改善他们农作物,果树和葡萄,的种植规模和品质

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