Plantation

(noun.) a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America); 'the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century'.

(noun.) an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas).

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• Beyond the boundaries of the plantation, George had noticed a dry, sandy knoll, shaded by a few trees; there they made the grave. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The scene shifts from the plantation, to Betteredge's little sitting-room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• These two colored men were the two principal hands on the plantation. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Did you see any one, or hear any one, in the plantation? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The troops lighted their way through this with candles carried in their hands for a mile and a half, when they came to an open plantation. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• We were now in the plantation. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It must be those wretched gipsies in the plantation. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I was on a visit to Alf's plantation, for it was after we had dissolved partnership. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Well, said Miss Ophelia, how came you to give up your plantation life? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• When the plantation indigo was worth three-fourths of the price of the best French indigo, it was, by this act, entitled to a bounty of 6d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Her master is Mr. Legree, who owns a cotton plantation on the Red River. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• At length Clym reached the margin of a fir and beech plantation that had been enclosed from heath land in the year of his birth. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• This was the last interruption: that night we rested at a large coffee plantation, some eight miles from the cave we were on the way to visit. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• While the questions and answers were going on, we had all been strolling quietly back through the plantation. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The poor creature had strayed into the plantation, and had been shot by your keeper. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If both had owned plantations in Louisiana, they would have been as like as two old bullets cast in the same mould. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The need for labour upon the plantations of the West Indies and the south was imperative. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But it so happens, that many of the principal proprietors of the sugar plantations reside in Great Britain. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The mulberry plantations of th e Cévennes were abandoned and the whole region was desolate. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• There was a rapid development of plantations and proprietary colonies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Britain need envy neither the vineyards of France, nor the olive plantations of Italy. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• We procured full loads for our entire train at two plantations, which could easily have furnished as much more. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• How is Rubber Cured on Modern Plantations? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I suppose the creature strayed into the plantations, and got shot. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• While, for example, Muscovado sugars from the British plantations pay, upon importation, only 6s:4d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Any committee-man might be removed by the board of trade and plantations, now by a committee of council, after being heard in his own defence. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• On these plantations, rubber trees are cultivated just the same as other crops. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Pass straight down the fields, not round by the lade and plantations. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They only does down in plantations, where niggers, when they runs, has to do their own running, and don't get no help. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Many who could tolerate slavery upon the plantations found the slave trade too much for their moral digestions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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