| 词汇 | cotton broker |
| 词源 | cotton broker. One who brokers cotton, or in Erskine Cald- well’s words (God’s Little Acre, 1933): “ ‘Do you know why they’re called brokers?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because they keep the farmers broke all the time. They lend a little money, and then they take the whole dam’d crop. Or else they suck the blood out of a man by running the price up and down forcing him to sell. That’s why they call them cotton brokers.’ ” |
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