来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：现代早期英国社会 第2集 第2集》
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who put together a rather bare hand-to-mouth他们是有上顿没下顿的 -
living as cottagers and laborers.佃农和壮丁 -
But most people still had access to the land one way or another.但是大部分人依然是有土地的 -
Even cottagers and laborers generally had a small holding即便是佃农和壮丁也有一丁点土地 -
and they would have the right to graze their animals他们有权在村子里的 -
on the commons of their village; rights of pasture.公共用地上放牧 这就是放牧权 -
Complete dependence upon wage labor完全依靠出卖劳动力维生的现象 -
was still exceptional in the countryside在乡村不太常见 -
and I emphasize that because我强调这一点是因为 -
that's something that was going to change,接下来这个现象会发生变化 -
as we'll see, in the course of the sixteenth century.十六世纪相关的课程就会讲到这一点 -
What about the towns then?那城市的情况又是怎样的呢