plantation
种植园,种植业,种植场,种植基地
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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- : suitable for a plantation or for a tropical or semitropical country.
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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 .