They cut it with long sharp scythes, or with reaping machines.

它们用尖锐或收割工具剪断杂草。

The picture on page 279 shows men using cradle scythes.

第279页图片显示人们使用摇篮。

Sleep? Aye, and rust amid greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swarths - Starbuck!

睡嘛？不错，在青草丛中腐烂了；象去年撩倒了。搁在一半还未割起草丛里一样——斯达巴克！

Pestilence stalked at noonday through the city, and the doomed inhabitants fell like grass beneath his scythe.

正午时候瘟疫开始在城市里蔓延，那些在劫难逃居民就像小草一样被它大斩。

It was higher than a big scythe blade and a very pale lavender above the dark blue water.

这巴比一把大刃更高，是极淡浅紫色，竖在深蓝色海面上。

The short scythes used on the McCormick place were almost exactly like the scythes used on the old farms of Rome.

在麦考密克地区使用短几乎和罗马旧农场使用一模一样。

Cyrus Hall McCormick had spent many a weary day swinging a scythe back and forth across the fields of golden grain.

赛勒斯·霍尔·麦考密克在金色麦谷地里挥舞着，度过了许多劳累日子。

He carries with him a scythe, a large knife-like tool used to cut down or reap grain, hence the name.

他随身携带着一把，这是一种状工具，用于砍伐或收割谷物，这也是它名字由来。

I'm not asking you to wield a scythe, but, I mean, who has an under-butler these days?

我不是要你挥舞大开杀戒，但如今谁家还有副管家？

The men who had the scythes with the long handles and blades did not need to hold the grain as they cut it.

拿着长柄长柄人在割麦子时候，不需要用手去拿。

The scythe symbolized death's ability to strike us down in large numbers, and with a plague in the streets, you can see why it made sense.

象征着死神可以击倒我们很多人，尤其是在街头发生瘟疫情况，你可以理解为什么它携带着这种意义。

Fifty years went by, and the sons and grandsons of the first McCormick who had settled in the Shenandoah Valley were still harvesting their grain with the cradle scythe.

五十年过去了，第一个定居在谢南多亚山谷麦考密克子孙们还在用摇篮收割他们粮食。

And the scythe, well, it does a pretty good job of getting the idea across, a tool used for harvesting crops by swinging and cutting them down quickly and violently.

而呢，它很好地表达了这样一个想法，因为它是用于收割农作物工具，通过挥舞，快速、猛烈地进行砍伐。

After using such tools for many years, Son McCormick bought a scythe he had seen the farmers along the coast using to harvest their grain.

在使用这些工具多年后，儿子麦考密克买了一把，他曾看到沿海农民用它收割谷物。

He had stayed so close that the old man was afraid he would cut the line with his tail which was sharp as a scythe and almost of that size and shape.

这雄鱼离钓索好近，老人生怕它会用它巴把钓索割断，这巴象大般锋利，大小和形状都和大差不多。

As it increased, and the sullen roaring announced its power, it cleared everything before it, leaving the black and smoking soil far more naked than if the scythe had swept the place.

一旦火苗烧起来后，火苗发出沉闷燃烧声，似乎宣告着它力量，它清除了前方所有障碍，只留烧过乌黑土地，就像一把大扫过一样。