Landlords and farmers, besides, two of the largest classes of masters, have another reason for being pleased with dear years.

此外， 地主和农民这两个最大的主人阶级还有另一个理由对年迈的岁月感到高兴。

Cheap years tend to increase the proportion of independent workmen to journeymen and servants of all kinds, and dear years to diminish it.

便宜的年份往往会增加独立工人与熟练工和各种仆人的比例，而昂贵的年份则会减少这一比例。

The scarcity of a dear year, by diminishing the demand for labour, tends to lower its price, as the high price of provisions tends to raise it.

丰收年份的稀缺， 通过减少对劳动力的需求， 往往会降低其价格， 因为高价的食品往往会提高价格。

During the course of the last century, taking one year with another, grain was dearer in both parts of the united kingdom than during that of the present.

在上个世纪，一年又一年，英国两地的谷物价格都比现在高。

More people want employment than easily get it; many are willing to take it upon lower terms than ordinary; and the wages of both servants and journeymen frequently sink in dear years.

更多的人想要工作而不是轻易得到它；许多人愿意接受比平常更低的条件；仆人和帮工的工资在年岁高涨时经常下降。

If, in these places, therefore, the labouring poor can maintain their families in dear years, they must be at their ease in times of moderate plenty, and in affluence in those of extraordinary cheapness.

因此，如果在这些地方，劳苦的穷人能够在丰年维持他们的家庭，那么他们在适度丰裕的时候一定会安心，在非常便宜的时候会很富裕。

In dear years, too, poor independent workmen frequently consume the little stock with which they had used to supply themselves with the materials of their work, and are obliged to become journeymen for subsistence.

在丰收的岁月里，贫穷的独立工人也经常消耗他们用来供应自己工作材料的少量存货，并不得不成为帮工以维持生计。