| 单词 |
ladang |
| 释义 |
‖ ladang|ləˈdɑːŋ|
Also 8 laddang.
[Malay.]
A piece of land under dry cultivation, often a jungle clearing. Also attrib.
1783W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 60 Paddee, on Sumatra and the Malay islands, is distinguished into two sorts, Laddang or up-land paddee, and Sawoor or low-land. 1839T. J. Newbold Pol. & Statistical Acct. Straits of Malacca I. iv. 119 A small quantity only is grown on the ladangs, or dry-land plantations. Ibid. v. 263 The ladang rice, however, is affirmed by some to be sweeter and whiter, and to keep better than the produce of the sawah. 1906Skeat & Blagden Pagan Races Malay Peninsula I. i. 119 A blackberry..grows amongst the underwood (‘blukar’) on the old Sakai clearings (‘ladang’). 1935Discovery Sept. 263/1 Nomads of long habit, they [sc. the Sakai and the Semang] roam through their territory but no longer from one ‘ladang’ to another but rather from the borders of kampong to kampong as they lose their..fear of the Malay. 1954E. D. Laborde tr. Robequain's Malaya, Indonesia, Borneo & Philippines vi. 94 In Indonesia most of the cultivation is done on the ladang system. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Sept. 531/3 Nomads of the deep jungle, they clear and cultivate patches of a few acres, known as ladangs..; but in a year or two they move on, clearing new ladangs in other parts of the jungle. 1965C. Shuttleworth Malayan Safari ii. 32 In a number of ladangs..they had planted hill rice. |
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