Reader's Digest 10月号の記事 "Saving Henry's Last Leg" から引用します。
After Dr. Fakorede told Henry's family his plan, his sister, Judy Dotstry, looked over at her brother, who sat slumped over the side of the cot, a blue gown slipping off his bony shoulders.
Their father had been a sharecropper, and Henry had dropped out of elementary school to help on the farm, harvesting soybean, rice, and cotton.
"sharecropper" は農民で自作農ではないので小作人のようですが、辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.: As southern cotton growers reduced production in return for federal payments, sharecroppers and tenant farmers were driven from the land.
・Collins Dictionary: mainly US, a farmer, esp a tenant farmer, who pays over a proportion of a crop or crops as rent: Hall grew up in a shack with dirt floors, the son of a sharecropper.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: US HISTORY a member of a low social class of farm workers who receive a share of the value of the crop and who must pay the farm owner for seed, tools, food, and a place to live: Sharecropping was a way of life for many former slaves.
After Dr. Fakorede told Henry's family his plan, his sister, Judy Dotstry, looked over at her brother, who sat slumped over the side of the cot, a blue gown slipping off his bony shoulders.
Their father had been a sharecropper, and Henry had dropped out of elementary school to help on the farm, harvesting soybean, rice, and cotton.
"sharecropper" は農民で自作農ではないので小作人のようですが、辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.: As southern cotton growers reduced production in return for federal payments, sharecroppers and tenant farmers were driven from the land.
・Collins Dictionary: mainly US, a farmer, esp a tenant farmer, who pays over a proportion of a crop or crops as rent: Hall grew up in a shack with dirt floors, the son of a sharecropper.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: US HISTORY a member of a low social class of farm workers who receive a share of the value of the crop and who must pay the farm owner for seed, tools, food, and a place to live: Sharecropping was a way of life for many former slaves.
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