As soon as the servant was delivered alive at an american port , the contract was sold to a planter or merchant 一旦服役者被活着运抵美洲港口，合同就被转卖给种植园主或商人。
The rich merchants and planters were living on the fat of the land , whereas the craftsmen and natives were starving 那些有钱的商人和种植园主锦衣玉食，而一般手艺人和本地人却饿着肚皮。
I had not been long here , but being recommended to the house of a good honest man like himself , who had an ingenio as they call it ; that is , a plantation and a sugar - house 我到巴西不久，船长把我介绍给一位种植园主这人与船长一样正直无私。他拥有一个甘蔗种植园和一个制糖厂。
But as this is ordinarily the fate of young heads , so reflection upon the folly of it , is as ordinarily the exercise of more years , or of the dear bought experience of time ; and so it was with me now ; and yet so deep had the mistake taken root in my temper , that i could not satisfy my self in my station , but was continually poring upon the means , and possibility of my escape from this place ; and that i may with the greater pleasure to the reader , bring on the remaining part of my story , it may not be improper , to give some account of my first conceptions on the subject of this foolish scheme , for my escape ; and how , and upon what foundation i acted 就拿我自己来说吧，正是由于我不满自己原来的境况，又不听父亲的忠告-我认为，我有悖教训，实为我的"原罪" ，再加上我后来又犯了同样的错误，才使自己落到今天这样悲惨的地步。当时，造物主已安排我在巴西做了种植园主。如果我自己不痴心妄想发财，而是满足于逐渐致富，这时候我也许已成了巴西数一数二的种植园主了，而现在我却白白地在这荒岛上流落了这么多年，过着悲惨孤寂的生活。
I lived with him some time , and acquainted my self by that means with the manner of their planting and making of sugar ; and seeing how well the planters liv d , and how they grew rich suddenly , i resolv d , if i could get licence to settle there , i would turn planter among them , resolving in the mean time to find out some way to get my money which i had left in london remitted to me 我在他家住了一段时间，了解了一些种甘蔗和制糖的方法。我看到，在巴西的这些种植园主生活优裕，他们都在短时期内就发家致富了。所以我想，如果我能获得在巴西的居留证，我也要做个种植园主。
The “ triangular trade ” as it was known , whereby slave - ships left european ports for west africa with rum , guns , textiles and other goods to exchange for slaves , and then transported them across the atlantic to sell to plantation - owners , and then returned with sugar and coffee , also fuelled the first great wave of economic globalisation 当时奴隶贸易被称为“三角贸易” ，奴隶船载满朗姆酒、枪支和纺织品等货物离开欧洲港口到达西非换取奴隶，接下来经由大西洋把奴隶卖给（美洲）种植园主，然后再把蔗糖和咖啡运回来，同时也推动了第一次经济全球化的浪潮。
