So she sent a gadfly to bother the poor cow.

所以她派了一只牛蝇去打扰这只可怜的牛。

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To make matters worse, the soil on Cow Island was too poor for any serious agriculture.

更糟的是，岛上的土壤太差，不能耕种。

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Some HIV-positive patients in Swaziland are so poor they have resorted to eating cow dung before taking anti-retroviral drugs, Aids activists say.

据英国广播公司7月27日报道：艾滋病宣传员在斯威士兰发现，有些感染阳性艾滋病毒的病人们因太贫穷而不得不在吃药之前先吃奶牛的粪便填饱肚子。

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It's a big change in some of these very poor villages to get a cow.

奶牛对这些赤贫的村庄来说可是生财之道

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One of the reasons that the Reynolds women were so attracted to vanilla is that a single producing vanilla vine can support an entire Haitian family financially for a year, much as a cow might help a poor farmer subsist.

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Lacking title to his land patch or milk cow, and bedeviled by local bureaucrats from getting it, the poor man remains a squatter.

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That, combined with the poor attendances for the first two days, means this match will be no cash-cow for the ECB - though they have the consolation of staging international cricket on an almost non-stop basis until 20 September.

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