每年春天，农民都会把种子撒在地上，用自己的时间和种子来对抗自然灾害，这种乐观情绪似乎与她的先驱者祖先的信条密不可分，即“越远越好”——只不过不是在空间上走得更远，而是在时间上走得更远，超越了未来几年的地平线，而不是西方遥远的地平线。
(The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer forefathers that "it is better farther on"-- only instead of farther on in space, it was farther on in time, over the horizon of the years ahead instead of the far horizon of the west.)
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