自留地 [
zì liú dì]
private plot
land set aside for peasants to cultivate for private use
- 小面积自留地在中国存在了2000年。
Small private plots had existed in China for 2, 000 years. - 农民可以售卖自留地的农作物,繁荣了计划经济无法 提供的产品和服务,这被称之为“第二经济”。
Farmers were allowed to sell products from their private plots, and a thriving “second economy” provided goods and services that the planned economy did not. - 在戈尔巴乔夫时期,务农人口数量降至前一时期的四分之一。 只有老农们继续劳作,在国有土地上敷衍行事,维护着他们的自留地。
By Gorbachev’s time, the farm population had shrunk to a quarter of its former size; only older workers remained, working perfunctorily on state land or tending their private plots.