slash-and-burn
刀耕火种,刀割火烧,烧杀抢掠,刀枪不入
Definitions
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- : of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade.
Examples
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Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
The kids are out of school, Mom is out of get-up-and-go, Dad is out of work.
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