A succession of bad harvest had reduced the smallfarmer to penury.
连续歉收使得这个小农场主陷入了贫困境地。
2
A smallfarmer has a bad year, followed by another bad year with prospects for more of the same.
小本农民会遭遇收成不好的年景,接而又是那样的一年,接下来几年的前景也许都是如此。
3
Raiford Calvert was made first lieutenant, because everybody liked Raif, and Abel Wynder, son of a swamp trapper, himself a smallfarmer, was elected second lieutenant.