Britain Allotments

63. Take this job and shovel it
Apr 8th 2009 From The Economist print edition

Demand for garden plots is growing faster than supply

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AS SPRING makes its usual staggered start, the Fielding Street allotments, off south-east London's Walworth Road on a second world war bomb site, are buzzing. Plotholdersa mixed bunch of beekeepers, university lecturers, Zambian migrants and 'Nyudies' (new yuppie diggers) alongside the London-Irish flat-cappers of oldare making up for winter neglect. Exotic tubers and decorative blooms jostle carrots, spuds and beans in plots that range from pocket handkerchief to half a football pitch in size. For the privilege, the allotment society pays a nominal rental to Southwark Council, which owns the land.
The Fielding Streeters are part of a venerable British tradition. Allotments dot British towns and cities, typically on land along railway lines and on old manufacturing sites, a legacy of the industrial revolution that drew rural folk to the cities. In 1887 the first of several Allotment Acts obliged town and parish councils to provide land for people to grow food, and allotments helped Britons through wartime food shortages later. The 'Dig for Victory' campaign of 1939 fostered a self-sufficiency that lasted well into the era of post-war austerity.

A. 어휘
allotment 耕作貸與地(경작대여지), 시민 菜園(채원), 할당.
shovel 삽, 삽으로 떠내다. plot 작은 地面(지면). garden plot 텃밭.
stagger 비틀거리다, 망설이다. bomb site 폭격지역. buzz 윙윙거리다.
plotholder 땅 소유자. bunch 무리, 떼, 송이, 다발. beekeeper 養蜂家(양봉가).
lecturer 강사. migrant 이주자, 철새. yuppie 대도시의 화이트칼라, 엘리트
digger 농경에 종사하는 사람. alongside 나란히, 옆에.
flatcap (16-17세기 영국, 특히 런던에서 유행한) 납작한 모자.
flatcap을 쓴 사람, 런던시민. London-Irish flat-cappers 아일랜드 系(계) 런던사람.
of old 나이가 많은, 옛날의. make up for 보상하다, 벌충하다.
neglect 돌보지 않음. winter neglect 겨울동안 돌보지 않은 것.
exotic 異國的(이국적)인. tuber (감자 따위의) 塊莖(괴경). decorative 장식이 되는
bloom 꽃. jostle 밀어 제치다, 떠밀다. carrot 당근. spud 감자, 작은 삽.
bean 콩. range A to B A에서 B까지 줄 서 있다. 범위가 A에서 B까지 이다.
pocket handkerchief 주머니 손수건. pitch 크기의 정도. privilege 特典(특전), 특권.
society 협회, 조합. nominal 이름뿐인, 명목상의, 보잘것없는. rental 地代(지대), 집세.
council 위원회, (지방 자치체의) 의회. Fielding Streeters 텃밭을 경작하는 사람들.
venerable 유서 깊은, 古色蒼然(고색창연)한, 존경할만한.
dot 點在(점재)하다, 점을 찍다. manufacturing sites 공장지대. legacy 유물.
rural folk 농촌사람. act 법령. Allotment Acts 경작지대여법. oblige 강요하다.
parish 敎區(교구), 행정교구. wartime food shortages 戰時(전시) 식량부족.
‘Dig for Victory’ 2차 세계대전 중 식량자급을 위하여 영국정부가 주도한 텃밭 경작 운동. foster 助長(조장)하다. self-sufficiency 자급자족. austerity 耐乏(내핍).
post-war austerity 2차대전 후 영국에서 실시된 생활긴축정책.

B. 구문
- For the privilege, the allotment . . . which owns the land.
[경작권에 대해서 경작대여지협회는 땅의 소유주인 Southwark Council에 명목상의 지대를 지불한다.]

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The Fielding Streeters are lucky, as demand for allotments today far exceeds supply. The number of plots fell from around 1.5m in 1940s Britain to fewer than 300,000 in England alone in 1997, as councils built on land or sold it off: allotments in East London, for example, were sacrificed recently to the 2012 Olympics. Even before recession hit, a new enthusiasm for home-grown produce had swelled the waiting lists for plots. Some 100,000 people are in the queue now, and may stay there for up to seven years.
Groups such as the Federation of City Farms &Community Gardens are pressing councils to provide more land. They were joined this month by the BBC, which is launching a campaign for more allotments through 'Gardener's World', its popular television programme. Others too want unused land turned over to allotments. In February the National Trust, keeper of Britain's stately homes, unveiled a scheme to promote plots on its properties. Network Rail has welcomed allotments on land behind a railway station in Bristol and plans to do moreBritish Waterways, which looks after the canal network, has a pilot programme on the banks of an East London canal. Celebrity chefs have done their bit, too: Jamie Oliver is a big fan of allotments and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is developing a 'Landshare' website to match gardeners with spaces.
Deborah Burn of the Allotments Regeneration Initiative, a campaigning group, speaks warmly of such schemes. Yet councils are actually required to provide land for allotments, she points out. Although some towns, including Edinburgh and Leeds, and more rural councils have done so, 'we are still aware of many groups that have had difficulty in getting land'. Not, with luck, for long.

A. 어휘
exceed 초과하다. sacrifice 희생하다. recession 不況(불황). enthusiasm 열광.
produce 농산물. swell-swelled-swelled or swell-swelled-swollen 부풀다, 증가하다.
queue 줄, 辮髮(변발). in the queue 줄을 서 있는. federation 연합, 연맹, 연방.
launch 나서다, 물에 띄우다, 발사하다. trust 신탁, 보호, 신뢰. stately 당당한, 웅장한.
unveil 공개하다. property 所有地(소유지), 재산. rail 철도. look after 관리하다.
canal 운하. pilot 시험적인, 예비의, 수로안내인. celebrity 유명인사.
chef 요리사, 料理長(요리장). do one's bit 역할을 하다. regeneration 재생.
initiative 創始(창시), 發起(발기), 국민발의. rural 시골의.

B. 구문
- Others too want unused land turned over to allotments.
cf. turned→목적보어.
[다른 단체들도 遊休地(유휴지)를 시민 菜園(채원)으로 전환되기를 원하고 있다.]