佃农

diàn nóng jīng jì

佃农经济

tenant economy

wǒ de fù qīn dāng le dà bàn shēng diàn nóng

我的父亲当了大半生佃农。

For most of his life my father has been a sharecropper.

diàn nóng de shēng huó hěn xīn kǔ

佃农的生活很辛苦。

The life of the tenant is very hard.

qióng kǔ de diàn nóng men fā xiàn dì zhǔ qí shí hěn ruǎn ruò

穷苦的佃农们发现地主其实很软弱。

Then poor tenants found that the landlord was actually weak.

tā shì diàn nóng qióng kǔ le yī bèi zi

他是佃农，穷苦了一辈子。

He was a tenant farmer and had been poor all his life.

yī gè pín qióng diàn nóng de nián shōu rù zhǐ yǒu yī qiān yuán

一个贫穷佃农的年收入只有一千元。

A poor tenant's annual income is only 1000 yuan.