plowman

1 Instructed by my new philosophy I now perceived that these plowmen, these wives and daughters had been pushed out into these lonely ugly shacks by the force of landlordism behind.

2 Yet he did not spare rich nor poor: he preached at the Squire, and that great fat farmer, Mr. Bullock the churchwarden, as boldly as at Hodge the plowman, and Scrub the hedger.

3 Like many present day comedians and actors, medieval minstrels are believed to have had day jobs as peddlers and plowmen, but performed their theatrical gigs at night.

4 Nick Belles, 26, a plowman clearing commercial lots in Buffalo’s south towns, said he got a total of three hours of sleep during a three-day stretch.

5 The very first reference to that legendary activist Robin Hood appears in 1362 in a work credited to William Langland and known as The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman.

史上首次提到传说中“反动分子”罗宾汉的作品出现在1362年，当归功于威廉·朗格兰，这位因《农夫皮尔斯》而闻名的诗人。

6 Then the plowman passed again with his team of horses, and John called out some instructions to him.

7 Best of all are Wood’s smooth undulant landscapes with their plowmen and spongy trees and infectious serenity.

8 The plowmen and maids ventured farther into the room.

9 What need hath he now of a tardy crown, His name from mocking jest and sneer to save When every plowman turns his furrow down As soft as though it fell upon his grave?

10 The man who sped the woodman's team, And deepest sunk the plowman's share, And pushed the laden raft astream, Of fate before him unaware.

11 And I am your plowman, and will hereafter do your plowing only for a thaler a day wages.

12 It looked as if the poor plowman would have a hard job to get any work out of the pair.

13 But then he was only a poor plowman, and not an Hed Waiter.

14 THE sun sank; then that star came that bids the shepherd bring his flock to the fold, that brings the wearied plowman to his rest.

15 In his version, a plowman’s sweat transitions into a vase of drinking water, then eventually evolves into fruit, wine and, ultimately, trees.

16 The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

17 There is a similarity between the very old and the very new, and ancient poets perhaps best portray the primitive, sometimes heroic, life of effort the modern stockrider and plowman lead on the prairie.

18 Real plowmen and artisans won public office only rarely, but middling farmers, petty traders, successful mechanics, and ambitious country lawyers won elections in all the states.

19 She served the table for the plowmen and took her own meal in the pantry while she tidied up after they had gone to the fields.

20 The plowman drops the traces on the shambling oxen's backs turns his head and stares wistfully after the train.

1 庄稼汉

villain hodge yokel ploughman granger ploughboy plowboy scissorbill yokel colour

2 把犁人

ploughman plower

3 耕地人

ploughman

4 农夫

agr husbandly farmer rustic peasant Hind tiller husbandman Hodge ploughman granger Kisan ryot hind carl agriculturalist agriculturist kern chuff boor agr. agric. dirty-neck gully-jumper stump-jumper hob cob bucolic Carl homespun jake landman hobnail clodhopper sodbuster plower

5 村夫

clown countryman carl homespun bumpkin yokel boor clodhopper

6 乡下人

countrified yokelish clout-shoe provincial rustic peasant Hind countryman hillbilly hick Hodge yokel ploughman chuff churl countryfolk hind tyke plowboy stump-jumper clown villager bushy bucolic Carl bushman yap clod bumpkin jake Elmer boor bushwhacker landman clem clodhopper mossback busher plower one-eye chawbacon