| 单词 | coolie work | 
| 释义 | > as lemmascoolie work  C1.   General attributive, appositive, and objective, as  coolie boy,  coolie-catcher,  coolie emigrant,  coolie hire,  coolie labour,  coolie system,  coolie work, etc. ΚΠ 1681    Fort St. Geo. Cons. 10 Jan. in  Notes & Extracts  iii. 45 (Y. Supp.)  				For the farme of Dustoory on cooley hire at Pagodas 20 per annum. 1711    C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India viii. 243  				Hamalage, or Cooly-hire at weighing, 1 Coz of every 20 md Tabrees. 1773    Further Rep. Comm. Secrecy State E. India Company 222  				Proposals for Cooley work, viz. filling up the earth, &c. were extravagantly high. 1818    M. M. Sherwood Stories Church Catech. 		(ed. 4)	 xxi. 145  				Shall I tell the coolie boy to run after him? 1846    U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Oct. 251  				This is but one instance of the justice of the Cooley system. 1863    H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ.  i. viii. 108  				Coolie-traffic can never be carried on by private enterprise. 1865    Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 4/6  				A ship..started from Calcutta with four hundred coolie emigrants. 1879    Constit. Calif. in  J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. 		(1888)	 II. App. 678  				Asiatic coolieism is a form of human slavery, and is for ever prohibited in this State, and all contracts for coolie labour shall be void. 1890    Times 		(Weekly ed.)	 21 Feb. 10/4  				The Chinese agents employed to collect the coolies, and known as ‘coolie-catchers’. 1960    W. P. Morgan Triad Societies in Hong Kong iv. 63  				In 1886, a riot broke out in the Western district of Hong Kong arising from extortions practiced in the coolie trade. 1992    L. Scott Witchbroom 		(1993)	 173  				I take the flowers Madam send. She must have get the little coolie boy, Ram, Madoo son, to pick them before sun-up. < as lemmas | 
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