| 单词 | township dweller |
| 释义 | > as lemmastownship dweller b. General attributive (in sense 5c), as township dweller, township resident, etc. ΚΠ 1960 Guardian 16 June 9/3 Todd [Matshikiza]..is credited with the invention of fast township-slang Sampson dubbed ‘Matshikeze’. 1966 Drum (Johannesburg) 30 Jan. 16 There are the Municipal cops who the township wits call Black Jacks, so called because of their black uniform. 1971 Sunday Times 14 Nov. (Mag.) 5 Last year he wrote ‘Qundeni’ a contemporary play about township life. 1980 Compar. Politics 12 491 Influx control and crime lock together in a vicious spiral with the average black township-dweller caught between the tsotsis (township thugs) on the one hand, and the police on the other. 1986 Listener 3 July 5/3 The vigilantes emerged..because black township residents were sick and tired of the rule of the militant young ‘Comrades’. 1991 Argus (Cape Town, S. Afr.) 16 Apr. 7/3 Overcrowding and shortages of stationery, books and teachers are still plaguing many township schools. 2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land xiii. 132 The state hoped that their old gangs would reactivate and provide an attraction for township youths to rival that of the ANC. < as lemmas |
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