The clerk said with his best southern planter's accent . 房間登記員以最地道的南部種植園主的口吻回答。
The plantation owner was making a good profit on a small investment . 種植園主可以用少量投資獲得高利。
Planters in the south bought land from small farmers who moved farther west . 南部的種植園主買下了向西部遷移的小農(nóng)的土地。
To all appearances he was just the commonplace planter who had fallen upon evil days . 表面上看來,他完全是個(gè)時(shí)運(yùn)不濟(jì)的普通種植園主。
No calculating planter would care to part with a crippled slave for the current price of one dollar . 任何精打細(xì)算的種植園主都不會(huì)為了當(dāng)時(shí)的時(shí)價(jià)一美元而把這個(gè)跛腳的奴隸買掉。