Bailyn's third proposition suggests two general patterns prevailing among the many thousands of migrants: one group came as indentured servants, another came to acquire land.

贝林的第三个主张提出了在成千上万的移民中普遍存在的两种模式：一种是契约仆役，另一种是为了获得土地。

youdao

As the world's third-longest river, it covers one-fifth of China's land area.

作为世界第三长河，它覆盖了中国陆地面积的五分之一。

youdao

"Beit Jala has lost half its land, central Bethlehem has lost a quarter, and Beit Sahour a third," grumbles one resident-a fair summary of recent changes in the city's boundaries.

一位当地住民抱怨，“比特杰拉已经失去了一半土地，伯利恒中心区失去了四分之一，拜特·萨霍也丢了三分之一”，这是最近城市边界变化公平的总结。

youdao

Muller also confesses that one-third of land based temperature stations worldwide show cooling rather than warming.

FORBES: Salvaging The Mythology Of Man-Caused Global Warming

With a tenth of people in the United Kingdom living in one-third of its land mass, it is obviously going to cost more to deliver services such as health, water and sewerage in my native Eilean Siar (Western Isles) than it is in urban Chelsea.

ECONOMIST: Taking aim

He says the ideal facility would have about one-fourth of the land area and perhaps one-third the workers.

WSJ: The Forbidden City of Terry Gou