cueillir

Après leur initiation, les jeunes gens chassaient avec les hommes, tandis qu’auparavant ils cueillaient les légumes avec les femmes.
After initiation the boys hunted with the men; whereas before they had gathered vegetables with the women.
Autrefois, des intermédiaires achetaient des licences pour récolter ces feuilles et ceux qui les cueillaient — des femmes pour la plupart — gagnaient très peu.
Previously, middlemen bought permits to harvest these leaves, and harvesting was done largely by women, who earned very little.
Quand nous sommes allés nous promener près du ruisseau, les enfants cueillaient des menthes pouliot et d'autres fleurs.
When we went for a walk by the brook, the children were picking pennyroyals and other flowers.
Je me souviens très bien des nombreuses fois où les voisins allaient chez un autre voisin – un voisin malade – et cueillaient sa récolte pour lui.
I remember vividly the many times that neighbors would go to a neighbor's home—and harvest their crop for them.
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