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"Now for God's sake, girl, keep back!" said Martin gruffly. "Suppose anybody saw us like this in the field of our spring sowing, what would they take us for but a pair of useless, soft, empty-headed people that would be sure to die of hunger? Huh!" He spoke very rapidly, and his eyes were fixed on the ground before him. His eyes had a wild, eager light in them as if some primeval impulse were burning within his brain and driving out every other desire but that of asserting his manhood and of subjugating the earth.
“好了，看在上帝的份上，丫頭，靠后點！”馬丁粗聲說道?！跋胂胍怯腥丝匆娢覀冞@樣在地里春播，他們會把我們當作什么？肯定以為我們只不過是一對軟弱無能、沒有頭腦的家伙，一定會餓死的。啊！”他說得很快，眼睛緊盯著面前的土地。雙眼中閃著一種狂野、熱切的光芒，好像某種原始的沖動在大腦中燃燒，驅走了其他的任何欲望，只想表現自己的男子氣概，征服這塊土地。
"Oh, what do we care who is looking?" said Mary; but she drew back at the same time and gazed distantly at the ground. Then Martin cut the sod, and pressing the spade deep into the earth with his foot, he turned up the first sod with a crunching sound as the grass roots were dragged out of the earth. Mary sighed and walked back hurriedly to her seeds with furrowed brows. She picked up her seeds and began to spread them rapidly to drive out the sudden terror that had seized her at that moment when she saw the fierce, hard look in her husband's eyes that were unconscious of her presence. She became suddenly afraid of that pitiless, cruel earth, the peasant's slave master that would keep her chained to hard work and poverty all her life until she would sink again into its bosom. Her short-lived love was gone. Henceforth she was only her husband's helper to till the earth. And Martin, absolutely without thought, worked furiously, covering the ridge with block earth, his sharp spade gleaming white as he whirled it sideways to beat the sods.
“哦，我們干嘛介意別人怎么看？”瑪麗說著還是后退了幾步，遠遠地盯著地面。接著，馬丁鏟斷草皮，用腳將鐵鍬深深地踏進土里，伴隨著草根被拽出土地時發出的嘎吱聲，他翻起了第一塊草皮?，旣悋@了口氣，皺緊眉梢，匆忙回到原處播種。她拿起種子，開始飛快播撒起來，想以此驅散那突然襲來的恐懼感，那是她看到丈夫那雙無視她存在的眼睛里露出兇猛、嚴厲的神情時感到的恐懼。她突然害怕這塊冷酷無情的土地，這是農民的奴隸主，她的一生都會被束縛在辛勞和貧窮中，直到她老死，重返大地的懷抱。她那短暫的愛情已經遠去。從此以后，她只不過是丈夫耕田種地的一個幫手。從此以后，她只不過是丈夫耕田種地的一個幫手。而馬丁此時完全沒有多想，只是在拼命地干著活，不斷地往壟溝上培土，當他側旋著鐵鍬拍打草皮時，鋒利的鐵鍬泛著白光。
