When I was a child, I lived on a fruit farm.

我小时候住在一个果园里。

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"My grandmother used to say, 'when I dream of the motherland, I always dream of green,'" he said. "That's when I first found out she lived on a farm."

“我祖母曾经说过，‘每当我梦到祖国时，我总是梦到绿色，’”他说，“我是第一次知道她靠种地为生。”

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Later, when I got into politics, being able to say I had lived on a farm with an outhouse made a great story, almost as good as being born in a log cabin.

后来，当我从政后，能跟人说说自己曾在一个带有户外厕所的农场生活过的经历，倒也是个精彩的故事，就像和出生在小木屋的故事一样精彩。

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They are both complete lies, I lived on a farm for a number of years and I have watched my dad shoot rabbits before when they have had miximatosis, an injured fox and on one occasion a Mink who had entangled itself on a piece of farming equipment and was strangling itself.

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Part of my childhood was spent on a farm where I lived in a sea of pets: horses and chickens, a half a dozen sturdy, mouse-killing cats, rabbits, one pig, and many, many dogs, Rumble and Tumble and Sam and Lucy and especially Cuddles, who did justice to his name.

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