The farmer wants a clear title to his land without having to bribe the village headman, and his wife wants the doctor to be there when she takes her sick child to the health center. 农民希望不用贿赂村长就能得到土地,他们的妻子则希望带孩子去卫生中心看病时医生能在岗位上。
Further, headman, I say this:“ Straw may be sought by one needing straw; timber may be sought by one needing timber; a cart may be sought by one needing a cart; a workman may be sought by one needing a workman. 「再者,聚落主,我如是说:“释迦的弟子需要稻草时,可以寻求稻草;需要木料时,可以寻求木料;需要车子时,可以寻求车子;需要人工时,可以寻求人工。
headman
[ noun ]
an executioner who beheads the condemned person
<noun.person>
the head of a tribe or clan
<noun.person>
Headman \Head"man`\ (h[e^]d"m[a^]n`), n.; pl. {Headmen} (-m[e^]n`). [AS. he['a]fodman.] A head or leading man, especially of a village community.
"The village is not safe," said Harbhajan Singh, the village's headman. "No one moves out at night, only the police.
He reveals himself as an idealist who patterns himself after Sakura Sogo, a 17th-century village headman who was executed for seeking reduced taxes for poor peasants.
Disputes formerly resolved by a village headman now are settled with guns, historian Hamida Khoura said.
We were introduced to the headman by our guide and shown the floor that was to be our bed. Typically, the house we were staying in was built on stilts and was made around a teak frame and floored with sheets of bamboo.
Their headman is a fiery pastor; his young wife and her secret lover Mark are the only moral dissidents in town.