Cultivation
[kʌltɪ'veɪʃn] or ['kʌltə'veʃən]
解释:
(noun.) (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale).
(noun.) the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale).
(noun.) socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners; 'her cultivation was remarkable'.
(noun.) the process of fostering the growth of something; 'the cultivation of bees for honey'.
校对:露辛达--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
(n.) Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care.
(n.) The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture.
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同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Tillage, agriculture, husbandry.[2]. Improvement, refinement, culture.
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例句:
- Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- They had _no cultivation_ of grain or vegetables of any sort. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Helstone was at some distance from any neighbours of their own standard of cultivation. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- The narrow canon in which Nablous, or Shechem, is situated, is under high cultivation, and the soil is exceedingly black and fertile. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- But the populousness of every country must be in proportion to the degree of its improvement and cultivation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- In Virginia and Maryland, the cultivation of tobacco is preferred, as most profitable, to that of corn. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Mr. Moore, who was continuing his searches in that country, was instructed to arrange for the cultivation and shipment of regular supplies of this particular species. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Here the natives work under pleasant climatic conditions and the trees under cultivation grow better and yield better than in the forest. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- They could not be the daughters of the elderly person at the table; for she looked like a rustic, and they were all delicacy and cultivation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The very cultivation surrounding it had disappeared. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- They themselves care only for making money, and are as indifferent as the pauper to the cultivation of virtue. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- His first cultivation before that came about must have been rather in the form of garden patches near the house buildings than of fields. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- For a time cultivation became impossible. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The prohibition of exportation limits the improvement and cultivation of the country to what the supply of its own inhabitants require. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- This ruin was, however, by no means universal; there is at least as much mention of crowded cities and villages and busy cultivations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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