
v.作佃農(nóng)耕種
Southern farmers accomplished this first by using slave labor, then by creating sharecropping, a form of indentured servitude. 美國(guó)南方農(nóng)場(chǎng)主通過(guò)使用奴隸首先獲得了這種勞動(dòng)力資源,而后創(chuàng)造了收益分成種植體制,即一種契約奴役。
He lived in the shadow of his smart, generous older brother, a preacher-to-be who was the focus of his sharecropping family's hopes. 他生活在其聰慧大方、將要成為傳教士的哥哥的陰影之下,而后者是他所在佃農(nóng)家庭的希望。
While they retained their ties to an extended community network nuclear families however, became the dominant form of family life under the sharecropping system. 在他們和大的家庭網(wǎng)保持聯(lián)系的同時(shí),核心家庭已成為在作佃農(nóng)耕種制度下的一種主要的家庭生活方式。
Whereas Guatemala City has shiny shopping malls, gated mansions and trendy restaurants, many indigenous Guatemalans scratch an inadequate living as sharecropping subsistence farmers. 但是,危地馬拉城的購(gòu)物中心、有警衛(wèi)看守的豪宅及高檔餐廳卻熠熠生輝;與此同時(shí),許多危地馬拉的土著居民只得依靠從事佃農(nóng)耕種的自然經(jīng)濟(jì)來(lái)艱難度日。
Sharecrop vi.vt. 作佃農(nóng)耕種;