粮食在运交他们以前已经最终地和土地断绝了联系；但这一点对打谷者、扬谷者、奶油和奶酪的制作者来说也是同样正确的；

• the food has finally parted company with the soil before it is handed over to them: this, however, might be said with equal truth of the thresher, the winnower, the makers of butter and cheese;