1.And in a desert land where water is not delivered democratically, but parochially , on a whim, the land itself decides life.
而在水汽传送不能一视同仁的沙漠地带，水汽传送范围有限而且反复无常，那么决定生命去留的就是土地本身。
2.The South, parochially entangled in the issues of slavery and State-rights, had before the war devoted its energies to polemicism.
南方一直狭隘地为奴隶和州权问题纠缠不清，战前把精力完全花费在争辩上了。