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

它们用尖锐的镰刀或收割工具剪断杂草。

The picture on page 279 shows men using cradle scythes.

第279页的图片显示人们使用摇篮镰刀。

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

我不是要你挥舞镰刀开杀戒，谁家还有副管家？

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；象去年的镰刀撩倒了的。搁在半还未割起的草丛里样——斯达巴克！

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的短镰刀几乎罗马旧农场使用的镰刀模样。

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

正午的时候瘟疫开始在城市里蔓延，那些在劫难逃的居民就像小草样被它的镰刀斩之麾下。

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

这尾巴比镰刀的刀刃更高，是极淡的浅紫色，竖在深蓝色的海面上。

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·麦考密克在金色的麦谷地里挥舞着镰刀，度过了许多劳累的日子。

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

他随身携带着镰刀，这是种刀状的工具，用于砍伐或收割谷物，这也是它名字的由来。

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

拿着长柄长柄镰刀的人在割麦子的时候，不需要用手去拿。

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，儿子麦考密克买了镰刀，他曾看到沿海的农民用它收割谷物。

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.

镰刀象征着死神可以击倒我们很多人，尤其是在街头发生瘟疫的情况下，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，第个定居在谢南多亚山谷的麦考密克的子孙们还在用摇篮镰刀收割他们的粮食。

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.

而镰刀呢，它很好地表达了这样个想法，因为它是用于收割农作物的工具，通过挥舞镰刀，快速、猛烈地进行砍伐。

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，老人生怕它会用它的尾巴钓索割断，这尾巴象镰刀般锋利，小形状都镰刀差不多。

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.

旦火苗烧起来之后，火苗发出的沉闷的燃烧声，似乎宣告着它的力量，它清除了前方所有的障碍，只留下烧过的乌黑的土地，就像镰刀扫过样。