英语翻译In Our "Rurban"AgeTo know the countryside,you must live

英语翻译
In Our "Rurban"Age
To know the countryside,you must live in the city
In his book Badgers,the naturalist Michael Clark describes surveying the animal back in the 1960s.Calling at a farm cottage,he asked an old countryman whether he knew of any badgers living nearby."What are badgers?"came the reply.The countryman,Clark writes,"genuinely did not know of the species".
You can be a countryman,it seems,and know little of the country.But traditional,country folks are regarded as being in tune with the land.They live there,don't they?What can townies know of the"way of nature"?
This assumption infects much of our culture.It predicates the existence of a clear division between town and country.It enables the rural lobby to characterize itself as an indigenous culture,its"native"traditions and pastimes(hunting and fishing)threatened by an oppressive urban majority.The underlying message lies in that the countryside is best managed by country people.After all,they know about such things...
Unfortunately,too often,they don't.As the historian Keith Thomas showed in his study Man and the Natural World,the growth of our knowledge about nature has come by correcting the"vulgar errors"of country people.And although Thomas was writing about the period between 1500 and 1800,that process continues today—what country dwellers take for granted is still being confounded by the careful observation of reality.
A study,from York Univesity,has cast strange new light on the farmers' enemy—foxes.The more foxes a farmer kills,the more lambs he appears to lose to foxes.That is because:new foxes will almost certainly occupy the slain animals' territory,and new animals,unused to the terrain,may then choose more obvious prey—such as lambs.
The message of studies such as this is that natural systems are complex,unpredictable:understanding them requires patient observation and careful analysis.The lack of these conditions explains why,in the early modern era,grass snakes were killed as venomous,and gardeners worms becuase they were thought to gnaw plant roots.
The assumption that country people "ought" to know about such things is based on an urbanrural divide that opened up in the 18th century.For a couple of centuries,city and country people did inhabit separate realms.But the car,the phone,the media and the Internet have contributed to the unifying tendency of what we call modern lifestyle;and the vast population outflow from cities into rural areas blurred the difference between urban and rural.Thus,a new word—"rurban"—has been coined to describe this condition.Most of us now work indoors or in an office,and even if we are involved in our primary industries,we are far more likely to be staring at a computer that communicating with the landscape.Human life has turned generally into a monoculture by work,sleep,shopping and TV—all actually identical whether performed in town or country.
好的话，要人工翻译的哦

在我们的“半城半乡”时代
要知道农村,须住在城市.
在他的书《獾》中,自然主义者Michael Clark描述了在早在上世纪60年代时调查动物之事.在一个农场屋子,他问一个老农民是否知道附近有没有獾生存.“獾是什么东西?”老农民回答.这个人,Clark写道,“真的不知道这种动物”.
看起来,你可以做一个不了解农村的农村人.不过传统上,农村民歌被认为是土地上的旋律.他们在那里,不是吗?城里人怎么会知道“自然之道”呢?
这个臆断对我们的文化影响甚大.它断定城乡之间有一条清晰的界限.它让农村游说团体表明自己的土生土长的文化,它“天生”的传统和消遣方式（打猎、捕鱼）正被不公正的城市主体威胁着.这些潜在的观点认为,农村最好由农村人管理.毕竟,他们知道这些事情……
不幸的是,多数时候,他们并不知道.如历史学家Keith Thomas在他的研究“人与自然世界”中显示的那样,我们对自然的知识来自对农村人的“庸俗错误”的修正.而且,虽然Thomas写的是1500到1800年间的事情,但是这个过程至今仍在延续——农村居民认为理所当然的,仍然被细致的事实观察所击败.
约克大学的一项研究指向了农村敌人——狐狸的怪异新光芒.一个农民杀狐狸越多,被狐狸吃掉的羊羔也越多.这是因为：新狐狸几乎肯定会占领死狐狸的地盘,然后这不熟悉本地区的新动物就会更多地去攻击那明显的猎物——羊羔.
这项研究的信息说明自然系统很复杂,不可预测：了解这个需要耐心地观察、细致地分析.缺乏这些,就是为什么我们在早现代社会时,草蛇被当作毒蛇杀掉,农业益虫被认为在咬植物的根.
关于农村人“应该”知道这些东西的臆断,是建立在18世纪的城乡之别的基础上的.两个世纪过去了,城市和乡村的人住在不同的地方,但是汽车、电话、媒体和网络已经把我们说的现代生活方式统一在一个趋势中了；而且从城市到农村的人口流动也把城乡区别变模糊了.所以,一个新词——“半城半乡”——就应运而生,来描述这种状态.如今我们多半在室内工作,就算我们工作于第一产业（农业）,我们也更有可能是盯着电脑,而不是和土地交流.人类生活变得更加单一了,由工作、睡觉、购物和电视组织——所有这些其实在城里和农村都是一样的.