sharecropper

英 [ˈʃeəkrɒpə(r)] 美 [ˈʃerkrɑːpər]

n.  佃农

复数:sharecroppers

COCA.19288



牛津词典

noun

  1. 佃农
    a farmer who gives part of his or her crop as rent to the owner of the land

    柯林斯词典

    1. (以粮代租的)佃农
      A sharecropper is a farmer who pays the rent for his land with some of the crops they produce.

      双语例句

      1. Her own dream was born in a sharecropper's shack in East Texas where there was no money for books or toys& she and her11 siblings each got an apple, an orange and10 nuts for Christmas.
        家里没钱买书或玩具&过圣诞节时,她和十一个兄弟姐妹每人只得到一只苹果、一个橘子和十只坚果。
      2. I felt like the soil on some desperate sharecropper's farm, sorely overworked and needing a fallow season.
        我就像某个绝望的佃农所耕种的土壤,负担过重,亟需休耕。
      3. For most of his life my father has been a sharecropper.
        我父亲大半生当佃农。
      4. Was he a sharecropper?
        他是个佃农?
      5. He wanted to own her as wildly as a miser wants to own gold coins, as hungrily as a sharecropper wants to own his own land.
        他想要占有她,如疯似癫得就像守财奴想要占有金市一样,如饥似渴得就像二地主想要占有耕地一样。
      6. $ 200is taken away from an industrial tycoon and given to a poor sharecropper.
        从一个工业巨头的收入中抽出200美元分给一个贫穷的佃农。
      7. Cropper: a person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper.
        分益佃农:耕种土地以换取收益分成的人;收益分成的佃农。
      8. This great, rich, restless country can offer opportunity and education and hope to all, all black and white, all North and South, sharecropper and city dweller.
        这个伟大的、富有的、精力充沛的国家能够提供机会、教育和希望给所有人,所有黑人和白人,整个南方和北方,小佃农和城市居民。
      9. The tenants, or sharecropper, worked the land and shared the crop with the landlord.
        这种佃农耕作土地,并与地主对作物收获分成。

      英英释义

      noun

      1. small farmers and tenants

          Synonym:    croppersharecrop farmer