They wanted stories that showed Lincoln being this humble rail-splitter, being a country bumpkin.

他想打造的效果是让大家认为林肯是一个卑微的劈柴工，一个乡巴佬。

I don't see why I should have to watch your father parade around with some Biblethumping bumpkin.

不懂，何苦要看着你爸对着一个满脑子圣经的村姑献。

We were just like a couple of Mississippi bumpkins.

-像一对密西西比土包子。

Or are you worried the bumpkin from Castlebury can't get herself home without a limo?

还是你担心从凯瑟布莱来的乡巴佬不坐房车回不了家？

No historians know why, but some guess that the king was a snob and thought the teenaged Ferdinand was a country bumpkin.

没有历史学家知道为什么， 但有人猜测国王是个势利小人， 认为十几岁的费迪南德是个乡巴佬。

You’ve got the dog as well so you’re a proper country bumpkin.

你也有狗，所以你是个地地道道的乡巴佬。

I asked him what was the matter, and, after a little trouble — he was better than a mere bumpkin — I learnt that, having been sent with sixpence to pay a debt, he had lost the money.

问他怎么了，经过一点小麻烦——他总比一个土包子强——才知道，他被派来六便士来还债，但钱却丢了。