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.

那没有脱敲打他可怜的老背，也没有剑鱼刺他的胃，没有锯鱼撕开他，没有冰鲨咬下他的身体，也没有捕鲸人用鱼叉和长矛刺他。

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.

是爸爸让其他人把小麦堆在一起，然后送去脱，这是一台很棒的器。

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

但是并没有太多，因为脱很辛苦，而且很饿。