Farmable soil, if you go to purchase it, costs four dollars a pound.

地的土壤，如果你去购买它，价格是四美元一磅。

We will enhance the protection of cropland, and resolutely stop any attempt to use it for purposes other than agriculture and specifically grain production.

强化地保护，坚决遏制地" 非化" 、防止" 非粮化" 。

Most of the land that we can cultivate has already been cultivated.

绝大部分用地都已经被开垦种。

And the arable land is the land where we can grow crops.

地是我们以种植庄稼的土地。

Most of the fires are started in order to clear land for plantations.

大多数火灾的起因是为了开垦地。

But the plants in the fallow field give us green manure.

但休地里的植物给我们带来了绿肥。

While the south is a lush, lake-filled region, the north—which has half the population and most of the farmland—is more like a desert.

虽然中国的南方水资源丰富，充满了湖泊。但是拥有半数人口以及绝大部分地的北方，却更像沙漠一般。

We don't have farms to cultivate.

" 我们没有田去地。

They cover about 6 percent of the land surface on earth but some estimates suggest they used to cover twice that but had been dramatically reduced by deforestation, cutting them down for human use like wood, farmland or mining.

热带雨林占地球表面的6%，但是有人估计热带雨林以前的面积是现在的两倍，但是遭到了严重的森林砍伐。人们为了木材、地和矿物大量砍伐雨林。

Agriculture tied people to their land, meaning that at the end of the four-year period neither men nor women had any inclination to wander off and find a new family.

业人们与地联系在一起，这就意味着四年期的生活之后，无论男女都没有任何离开并建立新家庭的意向。

This was an important business before the days of tractors, when many families made a living from farming and mules were used as work animals.

在没有拖拉机的年代，那时大部分家庭还是用牲口来地，这是一个很重要产业。

You can use the Amazon as a source of riches and that may be the reason why people are out there setting fires at night to create more farming land they can use to grow cattle.

你以利用亚马逊地区作为财富的来源，这能就是为什么人们在夜晚放火，创造更多的地，他们以用来养牛。

" The people who work the fields. The people around here have only endless misfortune."

“地为生的人们。这儿的人们只有无尽的不幸。”

Drained bogs make up seven percent of arable land in Germany.

排干的沼泽占德国地的7%。

The farmer cultivated his fields just before planting time.

在种植前，民先要地。

The body of the plough would have been of wood, and could have been drawn by people, but it's also likely that cattle were used.

犁是木制的，能由人拉着地，但是也能是用牛犁地。

This area was easier to access, and had good land for farming.

这个地区更容易到达，并且拥有良好的地。

But where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet and good, tilled earth.

但是真正让我们热爱的 还是和平宁静的生活 与平整肥沃的地。

The companies then felled extensive tracts of rainforests in order to establish new plantations.

这些公司接下来砍伐雨林， 清出大片地，以建立新的园。

What can this mean? I cried. Who can have set fire to the fallow?

“这意味着什么？”我喊道。“谁休地点着了？”