plantation 的 2 个定义
- a large farm or estate in a tropical or semitropical zone, for the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugarcane, etc., typically by enslaved, unpaid, or low-wage resident laborers.
- a group of planted trees or plants.
- History/Historical. a colony or new settlement.the establishment of a colony or new settlement.
- Archaic. the planting of seeds, young trees, etc.
- suitable for a plantation or for a tropical or semitropical country.
plantation 近义词
large farm
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- Though she labors on the plantation, her father secretly encourages her education and assures her she’ll be freed on her 18th birthday.
- William has taken over those duties since his dad’s strokes and spends two nights a week at the plantation.
- Nestlé, for one, has faced similar scrutiny over child labor on coffee plantations in Brazil where it sources some of its beans.
- After the war ended, he headed to Mexico, where he tried to establish a “New Virginia Colony” that would have re-created a version of the South’s plantation slavery and society.
- The film was based on Northup’s own 1853 memoir Twelve Years a Slave, which documented his treatment on the plantation and his eventual freedom and reunion with his family, as well as on input from historians and researchers.
- Hamer married in 1944 and moved with her husband to Ruleville, Miss., where they were sharecroppers on a plantation.
- A Colombian coffee plantation teaches a valuable lesson in the fight to keep a dreaded disease from wiping out our favorite brew.
- After firing that off, he clumsily asked what a plantation mentality is.
- “I think you have more of a plantation mentality than I do,” he said.
- Located in northern California, the Plantation Farm Camp takes everything back to the basics.
- At another time her affections were deeply engaged by a young gentleman who visited a lady on a neighboring plantation.
- His chief duty on the sugar plantation is to keep the monkeys out of the cane.
- The plantation is divided up into small farms and rented to different workmen.
- Until a few months ago, the boy has lived on a sugar plantation owned by a rich Tagal planter.
- She had herself embroidered them to look like a pair worn by the rich lady whose husband owned the plantation.