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Chinese to English Dictionary (1-5 of 40)
- semi-tenant peasant; semi-owner peasant
- 农民起义
- [nóngmínqǐyì]
- peasant uprising; peasant revolt
- 瓜农
- [guānóng]
- A peasant who makes his living by planting melons; especially a peasant who plants watermelons.
- 减租减息
- [jiǎnzūjiǎnxī]
- Reduction of rent and interest; an important policy that had been made in revolutionary base and liberated areas by Chinese Communist Party during the war of Japan Resistance and Civil Liberation, that is, to reduce tax including tax a peasant should pay for renting land, a rich peasant should pay for owning land, and interest rate that a landlord, rich farmer or a moneylender should pay.
- 上中农
- [shànɡzhōnɡnónɡ]
- A upper-middle class peasant; well-off middle class peasant possessing more means of production than and having slightly exploiting local peasants; also 富裕中农.
English Dictionary (1-1 of 1)
- 1. a member of a class of low social status that depends on either cottage industry or agricultural labour as a means of subsistence
- 2. ( as modifier )
- 3. a person who lives in the country; rustic
- 4. an uncouth or uncultured person
- 5. C15: from Anglo-French, from Old French païsant, from païs country, from Latin p a gus rural area; see pagan
Examples (1-5 of 42)
- She saw some little peasant children down by the street.
- 她看到街那边有几个年纪很小的乡下孩子。 → peasant
- The peasant farmers were usually tied to the land that they worked.
- 农民通常会与自己耕作的那块土地不可分割。 → peasant
- For peasant workers, the prospects for life and work in the city have not been good.
- 对于农民工来讲，城市里生活和工作的前景都一直不是很好。 → peasant
- The peasant workers mainly work in the manufacturing industry.
- 农民工主要在制造业工作。
- Tim introduced me to Lauren, who is a real peasant.
- 蒂姆向我介绍了劳伦，他是一位地道的农民。 → peasant
