They were luckier than their fellow Puritans atPlymouth Bay, who subsisted as independent farmers, wresting meagre harvests ofmaize from the rocky soil of New England.

他们比在普利茅斯海湾身为自由农民的清教徒同伴幸运，那些自由农民只能靠新英格兰石质土壤里歉收的玉米维生。