来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：欧洲文明 第10集 第10集》

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  owned so much of the land.
  占据了如此多的土地
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  That's still true today in Britain.
  直到今天 英国还是如此
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  But there weren't any peasants. Why?
  但是却没有小农阶层 为什么呢
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  Because the big fish had eaten the smaller fish.
  是因为大鱼吃掉了小鱼
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  And because, beginning in the sixteenth century,
  自十六世纪开始
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  the enclosure movement, which you've read about, I think,
  圈地运动 我想你们应该都读过
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  meant that basically, no surprise, the big guys
  毫无疑问 有权有势的人
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  get the law on their side.
  基本上都有法律撑腰
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  Parliament passes thousands of acts of enclosure
  国会通过了上千条关于圈地的法令
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  which allow people to enclose and divide up the common land.
  允许人们将公用土地圈为私有并瓜分
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  The big fish eat the smaller fish
  大鱼吃掉了小鱼
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  and the peasantry is basically destroyed.
  于是小农阶层就基本上消失了