There are good wells of fresh water, and fruitful soil, and timber for building, and fish in the lagoons; and the other men of that world have not yet discovered it.

你们会有水源旺盛、水质甘甜的水井；肥沃的土地可以耕种，充足的木材可以造房，还有环礁水域中捕不尽的鱼虾。那个世界的其他人至今仍然没有发现那个小岛。

The country in which he grew up was rough and, so far as the conventionalities go, uncivilized; the family homestead was little more than a log cabin; and existence meant a continual struggle with a not particularly fruitful soil.

他长大的国家是粗野的，就传统而言，是不开化的。家庭宅基地只不过是一间小木屋。生存意味着与一块并不特别肥沃的土地进行持续的斗争。