遊鄉
Chinese
to roam; travel | country; village | ||
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trad. (遊鄉) | 遊 | 鄉 | |
simp. (游乡) | 游 | 乡 |
Pronunciation
Verb
遊鄉
- to parade somebody through the villages
- 他們用繩子捆綁了劣紳,給他戴上高帽子,牽著遊鄉(湘潭、湘鄉叫遊團,醴陵叫遊壠)。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Tāmen yòng shéngzi kǔnbǎng le lièshēn, gěi tā dài shàng gāo màozi, qiān zhe yóuxiāng (Xiāngtán, Xiāngxiāng jiào yóutuán, Lǐlíng jiào yóulǒng). [Pinyin]
- They tether the evil gentry with ropes, crown them with tall paper-hats and parade them through the villages. (In Xiangtan and Xiangxiang they call this “parading through the township” and in Liling “parading through the fields”.)
他们用绳子捆绑了劣绅,给他戴上高帽子,牵着游乡(湘潭、湘乡叫游团,醴陵叫游垅)。 [MSC, simp.]
- to go through the villages to solicit customers
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