英:['sɒdbʌstə]
美:['sɒdbʌstə]
英:['sɒdbʌstə]
美:['sɒdbʌstə]
noun
a person or a thing (such as a farmer or a plow) that breaks the sod
"开拓者农民在美国西部的牛放区,最早出现于1897年,源自于 sod(n.1)和 bust(v.)的代理名词。
The first known use of sodbuster was circa 1918
1 Wichita, Kansas. Sodbusters, buffaloes, cowboys on long dusty cattle drives, Wyatt Earp’s jail.
2 So does this San Angelo author who finds grace and dignity in common cowboys and sodbusters.
3 Popularly known as “sodbusters,” these men and women in the Midwest faced a difficult life on the frontier.
4 Cotton pickers from Texas and sodbusters from Oklahoma.
5 That it contains the grave or graves of a person or persons who were homesteaders, immigrants, prairie farmers, pioneers, sodbusters, first-generation Nebraskans or Civil War veterans.
6 It was industrialization that moved farming from the horse and plow to gasoline-powered tractors and combines, enabling sodbusters to turn more soil with less effort.
7 In North Dakota, where farmers were tearing out grasslands to plant corn for ethanol production, the law contains “sodbuster” provisions withholding insurance benefits from those who rip up lands the government wants to conserve.
8 Think of the plot of “Shane,” in which the ranchers do battle with the “sodbusters.”
9 During Sodbuster Days visitors can see what farm life was like before electricity.
农夫日时,游客可以看到使用电力前的农场生活。