1·Concentration of the samurai in castle-towns had acted as a stimulus to trade.
武士在城堡城镇的集中刺激了贸易的发展。
2·It was difficult for individual samurai overlords to increase their income because the amount of rice that farmers could be made to pay in taxes was not unlimited.
对于单个的武士统治者来说，要增加他们的收入是很困难的，因为农民可以用来纳税的大米数量并不是无限的。
3·But by 1638 thousands of the peasants and their samurai mercenaries had been slaughtered.
但是在1638年之前，数千农民和他们的佣兵武士都被屠戮。
4·"It's like a samurai boom," says a curator at the local museum.
“这就像一个武士的繁荣”，一位当地博物馆的馆长说。
5·Joking that he's a samurai, he vows to save his town with its crippled power plant, its poisoned rice paddies and terrified survivors.
他开玩笑地说他是一名武士，他发誓要拯救他的乡镇，还有那破败的工厂，污染的水稻田和恐慌的幸存者。