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佃户夫妻因为害怕，往往敢怒不敢言。佃户要是反抗，也绝不会有好下场。 Very often, the tenant and his wife acquiesced in these relations out of fear, but if the tenant should protest, he had little chance to make his protest effective. | ||
目前我们不需要任何佃户。 For the time being we don't want any tenants. | ||
俄国把农民变成了国家的佃户。 Russia made the peasant the tenant of the state. | ||
这些佃户都与地主签订了佃契。 These tenant-farmers have all signed a tenancy contract with the landlord. | ||
刚才他们告诉我，第一批的佃户们明天就得搬走。 Now they tell me that first of the tenants are to flit tomorrow. | ||
佃户被释放了，感激不尽，向仁慈的地主借钱偿还那顿酒席。 The grateful tenant was released and borrowed money from the kindly landlord to pay for the banquet. | ||
黄世仁逼死佃户杨白劳，污辱其女喜儿，喜儿被迫逃入深山成了“白毛女”。 Huang Shiren aggravated tenant Yang Bailao and humiliated his daughter Xier, who was forced to escape into the mountain and turned into "White-hair Lady". | ||
这样他俩叫来佃户，将王龙抬到镇上自家宅院里。梨花虽公开反对，却犟不过他们。 So they called the tenants and told them to carry Wang Lung into the courts where he had lived in the town house, and Pear Blossom, although she spoke against it, could not prevail with them. | ||
在采邑的土地法律中，佃户的严重犯罪行为可导致其保有的土地转利到地主名下。 In feudal land law, the commission of a felony by a tenant caused his land to pass to his Lord. | ||
作者对清末与民初的江南苏州地区地主租栈的运作以及地主与佃户的经济生活作了细致描述。 The author made a detailed description on the operation and economic lives of both the landlords and their renters in Suchou then. | ||
