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peasantry

/pez-uhn-tree/US // ˈpɛz ən tri //UK // (ˈpɛzəntrɪ) //

农民阶级,农民阶层,农民工,农民

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : peasants collectively.
    • : the status or character of a peasant.

Examples

  • Born two years before Mao Zedong’s Communist Revolution, Jin Liqun was “sent down” by the party to help rural peasantry as a young man, and spent his teens farming paddy rice, wheat and cotton in the sunbaked countryside.

  • One problem - the residents of Stoke Climsland are no longer humble peasantry prepared to take this kind of nonsense lying down.

  • There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

  • The Irish Peasantry are idle, the English say truly enough; but who inquires whether there is any work within their reach?

  • But it was not only among the peasantry that this belief in the extreme antiquity of tobacco pipes existed.

  • She was delighted with these indications of gratitude and sensibility on the part of the unenlightened and lowly peasantry.

  • The miserable ignorance of the peasantry is a disgrace to the landed gentry, and loudly calls for reform.

  • It is said to be not unusual, for the peasantry of Liverpool, to speak of Mr. Bell, as a benefactor of the emigrant domestics.