Plantation
[plæn'teɪʃ(ə)n;plɑːn-] or [plæn'teʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America); 'the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century'.
(noun.) an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas).
阿尔玛編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
(n.) The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.
(n.) An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
錄入:朱迪思
例句/造句/用法:
- Beyond the boundaries of the plantation, George had noticed a dry, sandy knoll, shaded by a few trees; there they made the grave. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The scene shifts from the plantation, to Betteredge's little sitting-room. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- These two colored men were the two principal hands on the plantation. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Did you see any one, or hear any one, in the plantation? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The troops lighted their way through this with candles carried in their hands for a mile and a half, when they came to an open plantation. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- We were now in the plantation. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It must be those wretched gipsies in the plantation. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I was on a visit to Alf's plantation, for it was after we had dissolved partnership. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Well, said Miss Ophelia, how came you to give up your plantation life? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- When the plantation indigo was worth three-fourths of the price of the best French indigo, it was, by this act, entitled to a bounty of 6d. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Her master is Mr. Legree, who owns a cotton plantation on the Red River. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- At length Clym reached the margin of a fir and beech plantation that had been enclosed from heath land in the year of his birth. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- This was the last interruption: that night we rested at a large coffee plantation, some eight miles from the cave we were on the way to visit. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- While the questions and answers were going on, we had all been strolling quietly back through the plantation. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The poor creature had strayed into the plantation, and had been shot by your keeper. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- If both had owned plantations in Louisiana, they would have been as like as two old bullets cast in the same mould. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The need for labour upon the plantations of the West Indies and the south was imperative. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But it so happens, that many of the principal proprietors of the sugar plantations reside in Great Britain. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The mulberry plantations of th e Cévennes were abandoned and the whole region was desolate. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- There was a rapid development of plantations and proprietary colonies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Britain need envy neither the vineyards of France, nor the olive plantations of Italy. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- We procured full loads for our entire train at two plantations, which could easily have furnished as much more. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- How is Rubber Cured on Modern Plantations? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I suppose the creature strayed into the plantations, and got shot. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- While, for example, Muscovado sugars from the British plantations pay, upon importation, only 6s:4d. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Any committee-man might be removed by the board of trade and plantations, now by a committee of council, after being heard in his own defence. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- On these plantations, rubber trees are cultivated just the same as other crops. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Pass straight down the fields, not round by the lade and plantations. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- They only does down in plantations, where niggers, when they runs, has to do their own running, and don't get no help. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Many who could tolerate slavery upon the plantations found the slave trade too much for their moral digestions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
柏格編輯