Kunta soon began to replace him as the plantation's best-informed source of news and gossip from the outside . 昆塔不久就取代了他成為種植園中外來新聞和傳聞的最豐富的來源。
There with cheap land and cheap labor, they could build up a plantation as a commercial enterprise . 在這里,他們可以用廉價的土地和廉價的勞動力建立起一個商業企業式的種植園。
After the civil war(1861-1865), slavery was outlawed and the big plantations were divided up . 南北戰爭(一八六一--一八六五)之后,使用黑人奴隸已不合法,大型種植園就解體了。
No calculating planter would care to part with a crippled slave for the current price of one dollar . 任何精打細算的種植園主都不會為了當時的時價一美元而把這個跛腳的奴隸買掉。
I love baccy, dear, more by token that it comes from the plantations to which the blessed woman was sent . 我喜歡煙葉,親愛的,主要是因為它來自那位有福分的女人被流放的種植園。
She wanted him to realize that she'd made a sacrifice when she'd thrown up her career to become a planter's wife . 她想要他認識到:她放棄了自己的事業,嫁給一個種植園主為妻,是一種自我犧牲。
I made several trips with brother mance, as he was called, to plantation shacks, sleeping on shuck mattresses . 我和曼斯大哥--別人是這樣稱呼他的--一起到種植園的棚屋去了好幾次,睡的是彈簧床。
He was born on the far south, on the d'arnault plantation, where the spirit if not the fact of slavery persisted . 他出生在美國最南部的達諾爾德的種植園里,那里如果說奴隸制度在事實上沒有了,奴隸制的精神卻依然存在。
Later, when he led his naked warriors down to the destruction of the germen plantation, he was wiser, and he appropriated all the liquors . 后來,他變得聰明起來,在率領赤身勇士搗毀德國種植園時,他把酒全部占為己有。
"we'll get the lawyers who handle our plantation affairs, and the newspaper people and some school teachers and a couple of ministers," whip snapped . “找那些為我們種植園辦事的律師,還有報界的人。再找幾個教師和牧師,”惠普干脆利索地說。