Now in some places of our country, a number of people have been cutting down the trees in the forests because they need wood and more farmland. The areas of forests are getting smaller and smaller.

在我国的一些地区，由于需要木材和得到更多的耕地，许多人一直在砍伐森林中的树木，森林面积正变得越来越小。

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Many are being resettled far from their homes and given low-grade farmland; in Hubei, thousands of people have been moved to the grounds of a former prison.

许多人将在远离家乡的地方获得贫瘠的土地。在湖北成千上万的人已经搬迁到以前是监狱的地方。

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In poor countries, forests are cleared to provide fuel and farmland, but as people gain wealth and better agricultural technology, the farm fields start reverting to forestland.

在较穷的国家里，森林被清除从而用来提供燃料和能唱，但是随着人们获得财富以及较好的农业技术，农场土地开始转向森林使用。

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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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As people flock to Lilongwe in search of jobs, they increasingly settle on the farmland that surrounds the city.

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