为生活而工作(Working for a Living)
In the first years of this century there was a notable difference between people who livedon farms and people who lived in country towns and villages. Outsider city people .... did not un-derstand these differences but the town people and farmers were very sure of them. In general, people in the towns saw people who lived on farms as more apt to be slow-witted,tongue-tied, uncivilized, than themselves and somewhat more docile in spite of their strength.
Farmers saw people who lived in towns as having an easy life and being unlikely to survive in situations calling for fortitude, self-reliance, lifelong hard work. They believed this in spite of the fact that the hours men worked at factories or stores or at any job in town were long,and the wages Iow, and that many houses in town had no running water or flush toilets or electricity. And to a certain extent they were right, for the people in town had Sundays and Wednesday or Saturday afternoons off. and the farmers didn‘t. The townspeople too were not altogether mistaken, for the country people when they came into town to church were often very stiff and shy and the women were never so pushy and confident as town women in the stores, and the country children who came in to go to High School or Continuation School,though they might get good marks and go on to successful careers later, were hardly ever elected President of the Literary Society, or Class Representative, or given the award as Most Outstanding Student.
Even money did not make much difference; farmers maintained a certain proud and wary reserve that might be seen as diffidence, in the presence of citizens they could buy ahd sell.
Virtual dead heat?
一个爆红的关于希望的网站
Spanner in the works?
Bet the farm?
Overcoming idioms as stumbling block
拜金女的“功能型爱情”
In the cards?
Push the envelope
Time to call time on cheap, strong alcohol
Left out to dry?
Taking their feet off the pedal?
Social safety net?
关于beef的那些事儿
Never really cut out for life in the battlefield?
Tooth and nail?
Road map to get back to profitability?
用英语聊聊创业
现在流行结婚
少喝点酒吧,同桌的你
女人和高跟鞋
Cooking the book?
启动野兽模式
Raw end of the deal?
用英语聊聊“快闪”
Bad karma?
Silver bullets?
Ebbs and flows
Fly close to the wind?
常坐飞机的人需要学的口语
Running up the white flag?
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