peasantry
农民阶级,农民阶层,农民工,农民
Definitions
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- : 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.