Now they are returning home and the unemployed mason , who is also a preacher , quotes ecclesiastes : " a time to be born and a time to die , a time to plant and a time to uproot . " No dying today , he adds with a grin .
Its almost like planting an oak tree seed , and leaving it to grow : it will grow and become big and strong , and the roots go so deep into the ground it is almost impossible to uproot .
这就好像种一棵橡树,任其生长:它会越长越粗壮,根深深地扎入土壤,根本无法铲除。
The law was supposed to uproot the country 's colonial legacy of concentrated landownership .
这个法律本应该根除殖民时期遗留下来的土地所有权集中化的问题。
India 's evil caste system remains entrenched in spite of government efforts to uproot it , a racist system that condemns darker skinned indians to a life of penury and servitude .
But others condemn the deals as neocolonial land grabs that destroy villages , uproot tens of thousands of farmers and create a volatile mass of landless poor .
It also includes the controversial belo monte amazonian dam , which will be the world 's third-largest when it 's completed but promises to flood more than 160 square miles of forest and uproot tens of thousands of indigenous people .