Breeding
['briːdɪŋ] or ['bridɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization.
(noun.) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; 'they debated whether nature or nurture was more important'.
(noun.) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression.
(adj.) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; 'the breeding population'; 'retained a few bulls for breeding purposes' .
迦勒編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breed
(n.) The act or process of generating or bearing.
(n.) The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
(n.) Nurture; education; formation of manners.
(n.) Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.
(n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction.
克劳迪娅手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Nurture, education, discipline, instruction, training, schooling.[2]. Deportment, manners.
卡蜜拉整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Nurture, education, training, discipline, instruction, manners, air, demeanor,decorum
ANT:ill-manners, ill-training, illbehavior, ignorance
贝弗莉錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Of course, my fair readers would not have me guilty of such extreme ill-breeding as to differ in opinion from a noble duke! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- And if care was not taken in the breeding, your dogs and birds would greatly deteriorate? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- No blame attached to the officers--that lying and disaster-breeding verdict so common to our softhearted juries is seldom rendered in France. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Next came Napier, who, with his usual ill-breeding, began to whisper in Julia's ear. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The malarial mosquito and the typhoid fly flourish in unhygienic quarters, and the only way to guard against their dangers is to allow them neither food nor breeding place. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Do you think, because I am a governess, I have not as much sense, and feeling, and good breeding as you gentlefolks in Hampshire? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Five and thirty, good-looking, good figure, good teeth, good voice, good breeding, well-dressed, dark hair, bold eyes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- For why do we blame all gross and injurious language, unless it be, because we esteem it contrary to good breeding and humanity? 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- This is a matter of mere common politeness and good-breeding, and has nothing to do with any encouragement to people to marry. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- But there IS something in good breeding after all! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- This strip of land from ocean to ocean abounded in disease-breeding swamps and filthy habitations unfit for human beings. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- True, she was sadly prejudiced, and very ignorant; but that was to be expected from her southern breeding. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The rules of good breeding condemn whatever is openly disobliging, and gives a sensible pain and confusion to those, with whom we converse. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
整理:罗莎