| 释义 |
back to the land
[back adv. 5.]
A catch-phrase applied to schemes for turning some of the dwellers in crowded cities into rural settlers. Hence back-to-the-lander, a townsman thus converted into a rural worker.
[1894Times 25 Oct. 12/2 All present were interested in the common principle that it was desirable, if possible, to bring the people back to the land.] 1899Leisure Hour 136/2 The cry ‘back to the land’ has come to sound..unreal. 1903Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Oct. 296/2 The common instincts that our ‘back-to-the-landers’ strive to relearn with arduous art. 1904Daily Chron. 16 July 4/7 This is the way the successful small holder sets about the business. But it is not the fumbling, ineffective way of the townsman Back-to-the-Lander. 1905Spectator 23 Dec. 1076/1 ‘Back-to-the-land!’ is a cry full not only of pathos, but of cogency. 1906Times 15 Feb. 15/6 By doing so you may make the catchwords ‘Back to the Land’ a reality. |