This is akin to when the industrial revolution overwhelmed the agrarian age .
这和当时工业时代取代农业时代的过程是相似的。
In closed agrarian societies , families need a lot of children as insurance against disaster .
在封闭的农业社会里，家庭需要较多的子女以防不幸。
This roughly tracks the passage from poverty to middle-income status and from an agrarian society to a modern one .
这基本可以显示一个从贫穷到中等收入发展的一个过程和从农业社会到现代社会的发展过程。
It 's a surprising phenomenon in a population that is more likely to associate the countryside with hard agrarian labor than a peaceful retreat to nature .
The country 's vast , mostly agrarian west was isolated from the international economy and lagged badly behind the booming east coast in progress and prosperity .
