But there are just a few little local patches, dying out here and there for lack of—well, hoeing and cross-fertilising: the last remnants of the old European tradition that your forebears brought with them.

但是只有一些小的地方补丁，由于缺乏——嗯，锄地和交叉施肥——你的祖先带来的古老欧洲传统的最后残余而在这里和那里消失。