At noon the threshers came in to the table loaded with food.

中午，端着食物来到餐桌旁。

But there was none too much, for threshers work hard and get very hungry.

但是并没有太多，因为很辛苦，而且很饿。

It was Pa who had got the other men to stack their wheat together and send for the threshing machine, and it was a wonderful machine.

是爸爸让其人把小麦堆在一起，然后送去，这是一台很器。

" You are always trying to make me confess to all sorts of absurdities. Because I am improving my mind, of course, by seeing all these steam-ploughs, and threshing-machines, and chaff-cutters, and cows, and pigs, and sheep" .

“你总是试图让我承认各种荒谬事情。因为我正在提高我思想， 当然，通过看到所有这些蒸汽犁、、切糠、牛、猪， 还有羊” 。

There were no threshers there to thresh their poor old backs, or sword-fish to stab their stomachs, or saw-fish to rip them up, or ice-sharks to bite lumps out of their sides, or whalers to harpoon and lance them.

那里没有来敲打们可怜老背，也没有剑鱼来刺们胃，没有锯鱼来撕开们，没有冰鲨来咬下们身体，也没有捕鲸人用鱼叉和长矛刺们。