Her father had started as a poor immigrant boy and had won the broad acres of Tara.

她父亲作为一个穷苦的移民小伙子起家，终于挣到了塔拉那片广大的土地。

While the farmers of the North found the broad acres of the Western prairies stretching on before them apparently in endless expanse, it was far different with the Southern planters.

——虽然北方的农民发现西部大草原的广阔英亩在他们面前显然一望无际，但南方的种植园主却大不相同。

The Southern planter, on his broad acres tilled by slaves, resembled the English landlord on his estates more than he did the colonial farmer who labored with his own hands in the fields and forests.

南方的种植园主， 在他广阔的土地上由奴隶耕种，与在田地和森林中亲手劳作的殖民地农民相比， 更像在他的庄园上的英国地主。