英语词汇“to buy back the farm”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

11. Australian. Used in phrases with the as a metonym or symbol for the Australian economy or capital assets (e.g. land, mineral rights, businesses, etc.), esp. envisioned as being under the control or influence of foreign investors. Chiefly as to sell off the farm, to buy back the farm, etc. [After a speech made by the Australian politician John McEwen on 2 April 1963 (see quot. 1963).]

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1963 J. McEwen in Commonw. Austral.: House of Representatives Hansard 9 Apr. 532 We in this room are mostly established farmers. If we earn enough annual income we can live comfortably. If we don't we could still live comfortably by selling a bit of the farm every year, and that is pretty much the Australian situation—we are not earning enough and we are selling a bit of our heritage every year.]

1965 J. F. Fitzgerald in Commonw. Austral.: Senate Hansard 2 Sept. 337/2 Even the Deputy Prime Minister talks of overseas investment as involving us in selling the farm bit by bit.

1998 J. Cleary Five-ring Circus (U.S. ed.) iii. 67 ‘There's a lot of opposition,’ said Jack Junior, ‘to overseas investment. Selling off the farm, that sort of thing.’

2014 P. Carey Amnesia xxv. 137 Gough's ministers set out to raise a loan to ‘buy back the farm’.

单词	to buy back the farm
释义	> as lemmas to buy back the farm 11. Australian. Used in phrases with the as a metonym or symbol for the Australian economy or capital assets (e.g. land, mineral rights, businesses, etc.), esp. envisioned as being under the control or influence of foreign investors. Chiefly as to sell off the farm, to buy back the farm, etc. [After a speech made by the Australian politician John McEwen on 2 April 1963 (see quot. 1963).] ΚΠ 1963 J. McEwen in Commonw. Austral.: House of Representatives Hansard 9 Apr. 532 We in this room are mostly established farmers. If we earn enough annual income we can live comfortably. If we don't we could still live comfortably by selling a bit of the farm every year, and that is pretty much the Australian situation—we are not earning enough and we are selling a bit of our heritage every year.] 1965 J. F. Fitzgerald in Commonw. Austral.: Senate Hansard 2 Sept. 337/2 Even the Deputy Prime Minister talks of overseas investment as involving us in selling the farm bit by bit. 1998 J. Cleary Five-ring Circus (U.S. ed.) iii. 67 ‘There's a lot of opposition,’ said Jack Junior, ‘to overseas investment. Selling off the farm, that sort of thing.’ 2014 P. Carey Amnesia xxv. 137 Gough's ministers set out to raise a loan to ‘buy back the farm’. extracted from farmn.² < as lemmas
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