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be a sharecropper
He was a sharecropper.
他是一个小佃农。
分成制佃农；佃农
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分成制佃农；佃农
A person, especially a small farmer or tenant, who works a landowner's land in exchange for a share of the crop.
He was a sharecropper.
他是一个小佃农。
与地主签订分成租佃协议的人；分成制佃农。
A person who enters a sharecropping agreement with a land owner; one who sharecrops.
小农和佃农
small farmers and tenants
设定在另一作者创造的虚构宇宙中的小说,通常经授权出版。
A fiction book set in a fictional universe created by a different author, typically produced under licence.
The sharecropper worked hard on the land but received only a small portion of the harvest.
这位小佃农在土地上辛勤劳作，却只得到收成的一小部分。
Many former slaves became sharecroppers after the Civil War.
许多前奴隶在内战后成了小佃农。
The sharecroppers planted cotton, but the landowner took most of the profit.
这些小佃农种植棉花，但地主拿走了大部分利润。
He was a sharecropper.
他是一个小佃农。
The sharecropper's field was small.
这个小佃农的田地很小。
The poor sharecropper worked hard.
那个贫穷的小佃农辛勤劳作。
Not this
He is sharecropper.
Use this
He is a sharecropper.
英语中可数名词单数前需要不定冠词a，而中文没有冠词系统，所以容易漏掉。
Not this
He sharecrops on that farm.
Use this
He works as a sharecropper on that farm.
sharecropper是名词，不能直接用作动词；正确的表达是用动词短语或系表结构。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
贫穷的佃农
The poor sharecropper could barely feed his family.
那个贫穷的佃农几乎养不活家人。
黑人佃农
Many black sharecroppers in the South were trapped in debt.
南方许多黑人佃农深陷债务。
曾经的佃农
As a former sharecropper, she understood the hardships of rural life.
作为曾经的佃农，她了解乡村生活的艰辛。
佃农家庭
The sharecropper family worked long hours in the cotton fields.
那个佃农家庭在棉田里长时间劳作。
佃农的棚屋
The sharecropper's shack stood at the edge of the field.
佃农的棚屋立在田地边。
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share（分享）+ crop（庄稼）→ 收成要跟地主分的人，就是“分成制佃农”。
语域：mixed 常见场景：American agricultural history and land tenure、publishing: licensed fiction in another author's fictional universe 该词主要指分成制佃农，常见于美国南部农业史或土地制度相关文本，语体偏书面、中性；另外也指在他人虚构世界中创作的授权衍生小说，多用于出版业或相关爱好者圈层，接近行话。正式程度随语境差异较大，因此整体标为混合。
可数名词，指人。
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