I have little interest in bird watching, but it sure beats working.
虽然我对赏鸟并没多大兴趣,但我宁愿赏鸟也不愿去工作。
From 1830 onwards in the USA and from about 1870 in Canada, settlers began to move westwards and to take possession of the plains as their own.
美国自1830年起,加拿大从1870年左右起,殖民者开始向西迁移,并把平原据为己有。