EN: 'If the living don't eat, the dead won't receive'
CN: 后人不吃，先人不得。
EN: Everyone has his own destination. The wheat is no different. It has its fate too. When summer comes… it'll be cut down anyway.
CN: 啥人有啥人的命数呢，麦子也一样，它也有它的命数呢，还不是到夏天让镰刀割掉了。
EN: Listen. The old bottles in the eaves… are whistling again.
CN: 你听，雨槽瓶瓶，又开始吹哨哨了。
EN: A straw donkey has it good. Doesn't need to graze, not bossed around.
CN: 还是草编的驴好啊，它不吃草也就不被人使唤。
EN: I saw you comforting the donkey in the yard, feeding him corns, this donkey… this donkey had a better life than I did. I thought… you'd be a good man to marry.
CN: 我看你在后院心疼驴，给它喂苞谷，这个驴，这个驴的命都比我的好，我觉得，你是好人，能跟你。
EN: To the sickle, he'd say “What could the wheat say?” To the pecking sparrows, he'd say… “What could the wheat say?” To the grinder, he'd say… “What could the wheat say?” Since it was still in seed form… what could the wheat say?
CN: 对镰刀，麦子能说个啥？对啄它的麻雀儿，麦子它能说个啥？对磨，麦子它能说个啥？被当成种子。
EN: Feet let people walk around. They're better off than crops and vegetables grown in the field. Things grown in the field can't go anywhere. Exposed to wind and sun… Living, then dying… Never leaving the field. Mind you, though… Where can our feet take us? We're also tied to our land We can't go anywhere. Tell me, how can a peasant live without land?
CN: 人长着脚总能走来走去的，总比种在地里的庄稼和菜强多了，粮食种在地里就哪儿都去不成了，风吹日晒的，生生死死的，只能在地里干挨着。话说回来，我们长了脚又能跑到哪里去呢，还不是牢牢着拴到地上了，哪里也去不成，你说，农民离开了地咋活呢？
EN: You don't want to go. You were used by others for most of your life, haven't you had enough?
CN: 放你走都不会走，让人使了大半辈子了，还嫌没使够吗？真是个贱骨头。
EN: This is where they wash their clothes and food. But when they wash anything… in this spot… there will be man-eating fish in the water. Especially in October, so even washing their food… becomes impossible. They need to scoop up some water, and then clean the food here. When they wash fish… and empty a bucket like this… they can see movement in the water. Big shoals of man-eating fish!
CN: 这是用来洗衣服和清洗食物的地方，但他们在清洗食物的时候，在这儿，在这样的水里就会有食人鱼，尤其在十月的时候，他们甚至再这样清洗食物，他们都是不能完成的，他们需要打水 舀水上来洗，然后在这儿清洗，他们在洗鱼的时候，把这一桶水倒进去，就能看到水下那种骚动，大群的食人鱼。