v.作佃农耕种
Southern farmers accomplished this first by using slave labor, then by creating sharecropping, a form of indentured servitude. 美国南方农场主通过使用奴隶首先获得了这种劳动力资源，而后创造了收益分成种植体制，即一种契约奴役。
He lived in the shadow of his smart, generous older brother, a preacher-to-be who was the focus of his sharecropping family's hopes. 他生活在其聪慧大方、将要成为传教士的哥哥的阴影之下，而后者是他所在佃农家庭的希望。
While they retained their ties to an extended community network nuclear families however, became the dominant form of family life under the sharecropping system. 在他们和大的家庭网保持联系的同时,核心家庭已成为在作佃农耕种制度下的一种主要的家庭生活方式。
Whereas Guatemala City has shiny shopping malls, gated mansions and trendy restaurants, many indigenous Guatemalans scratch an inadequate living as sharecropping subsistence farmers. 但是，危地马拉城的购物中心、有警卫看守的豪宅及高档餐厅却熠熠生辉；与此同时，许多危地马拉的土著居民只得依靠从事佃农耕种的自然经济来艰难度日。
Sharecrop vi.vt. 作佃农耕种；
