After being beaten and set ablaze, the two peasants were machine-gunned from close range.

先是殴打，再是火烧，接着两位农夫竟被机关枪从近距离活活扫死。

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Once upon a time two Peasants attempted to pass each other, and their sledges became entangled.

从前，两个农夫试图迎面而过时，他们驾的雪橇却交错在了一起。

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Once upon a time two peasants attempted to pass each other and their sledges became entangled.

有一次，两个农夫正要交臂而过，他们的雪橇却勾。

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Two million peasants a year have lost their land this way in the past five years, a senior government adviser in north-east China said in March.

ECONOMIST: Urbanisation

The straightness of his back came from something else: that on his third attempt at escape from prison camp he was beaten senseless, and his skull and neck broken, by two Breton peasants with pitchforks, and was invalided out in exchange for a U-boat commander.

ECONOMIST: M.R.D. Foot

Mr Li predicts that any gains peasants have made are likely to be offset by such measures within the next two or three years.

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