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Subject: pork-knockers Пожалуйста, помогите перевести.Выражение встречается в следующем контексте:Some pork-knockers does only clear track fuh monkey run race. Заранее спасибо |
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Привет из Гайяны http://www.guyana.org/proverbs.html Some people do all the hard work but others benefit in the end. |
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link 28.06.2006 8:19 |
| alk - Гайана |
| Я ждал этого ;) |
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link 28.06.2006 8:50 |
| Nadya9 - "Of course, we were hardly in a position to pass judgment on these bushmen, some of whom were “pork-knockers” — a name given to those who worked and sieved through the sand and gravel in the stream to find the gold — as their lives must have been awfully dull. Eat, sleep, wake and dredge gold, eat, sleep, wake and dredge gold, eat, sleep, get a whore when there was money, eat, sleep, drink rum when you could buy it. What a life!" |
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http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/chapter75.html Gold mining had a serious effect on labour on the coastal areas especially in the sugar industry. This was because many of the male African workers departed for the gold fields with the hope of earning quick riches. No doubt, in an effort to stem the drain of labour, the Government in 1880 imposed a royalty on would-be gold miners of 2 percent. But this did not halt the flow especially since sugar was fetching a low price in Europe. Earnings were never sufficient and hundreds of African men in the villages found great difficulty in finding employment in the estates and in the towns. Gold mining became a lure for these men and they singly or on groups departed for the interior districts in search of gold. Most of these miners operated independently or in small partnerships as soon as they staked mining claims in the interior areas where they "panned" for gold in the rivers. Since much of their diet consisted of salted pork, they began to be referred to as "pork-knockers". |
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link 28.06.2006 9:13 |
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СПАСИБО! alk: Шикарная кость! Есть что погрызть в свободные минуты, которых у меня в последнее время стало подозрительно и угрожающе много. Translucid Mushrum: Тяжелая работа, я то знаю! Была на Крайнем Севере. |
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