| 单词 | back to the land | 
| 释义 | back to the landn.  A catchphrase applied to schemes for turning some of the dwellers in crowded cities into rural settlers. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > turning into country dweller			[phrase]		 back to the land1899 1894    Times 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.]			 1899    Leisure Hour 136/2  				The cry ‘back to the land’ has come to sound..unreal. 1905    Spectator 23 Dec. 1076/1  				‘Back-to-the-land!’ is a cry full not only of pathos, but of cogency. 1906    Times 15 Feb. 15/6  				By doing so you may make the catchwords ‘Back to the Land’ a reality. Derivatives  back-to-the-lander  n. a townsman thus converted into a rural worker. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > 			[noun]		 > ruralist ruralist1715 back-to-the-lander1903 1903    Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Oct. 296/2  				The common instincts that our ‘back-to-the-landers’ strive to relearn with arduous art. 1904    Daily 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). <  | 
	
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