| 释义 |
‖ platteland S. Afr.|ˈplatəlant|
Also with capital initial and hyphened (platte-land).
[Afrikaans, f. Du. plat flat + land country.]
The rural areas of South Africa. Also attrib. Hence plattelander |ˈplatəˌlandər|, a native or inhabitant of a rural area.
1933C. J. Uys In Era of Shepstone vii. 199 Like a leaven the discontent spread from town to town—leaving the platteland unaffected—while the Cape and Natal journals magnified the danger out of all proportion. 1934Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 13 May, It is useless to take the platteland youngster and to teach him to enter a college or university. 1934E. A. Walker Gt. Trek ii. 46 Generally speaking the plattelanders were healthy, as they had need to be if they were to survive. 1935N. Giles Dark Border ii. i. 171 The cattle return to-morrow to the platteland and you will go with them. 1943J. Y. T. Greig Language at Work 106 Political discussions..take place on the stoep or in the bar-parlour of a hotel in some dorpie of the platteland. 1954W. K. Hancock Country & Calling vi. 173 Some idealists of the Dutch Reformed Church have recently deduced from apartheid the necessity of an immense economic investment in the Native Reserves. It is improbable that voters on the platteland will recognize the same necessity. 1955J. H. Wellington Southern Afr. II. iii. xv. 215 The larger urban populations have no great sympathy with what they often regard as the reactionary and parochial attitudes of the platte⁓landers. 1958A. Jackson Trader on Veld 20 The idea of leaving the comfort and relative sophistication of Port Elizabeth held no terrors for me, and when my Uncle mentioned that he might fix me up on the Platteland, I was eager to hear more. 1960Economist 7 May 505/2 The prime minister's escape from assassination—an escape regarded by the platteland mentality as providential in a more than political sense. 1967‘L. Black’ Two Ladies in Verona ii. 28 She told him of her childhood in the platte⁓land of South Africa. 1971Progress (Cape Town) May 9/5 The Provincial Executive would..value any..contact which the plattelanders might make. 1971Rand Daily Mail 4 Sept. 8/4 Platteland towns are being encouraged to join in the great property development game which has been largely confined until now to the bigger South African centres. 1977Time 21 Nov. 10/2 ‘Man,’ he shouted, ‘this [sc. B. J. Vorster] is the man! This is the Churchill of the platteland!’ |