Cultivate
['kʌltɪveɪt] or ['kʌltɪvet]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) prepare for crops; 'Work the soil'; 'cultivate the land'.
(verb.) foster the growth of.
班尼特手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.
(v. t.) To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.
(v. t.) To seek the society of; to court intimacy with.
(v. t.) To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine.
(v. t.) To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.
丹尼校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Till, raise crops from.[2]. Study, investigate, search into.[3]. Improve, refine, elevate, civilize, meliorate, make better.[4]. Foster, cherish, promote.
編輯:菲利普
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Promote, foster, study, improve, fertilize, till, advance, refine, improve,civilize, nourish, cherish
ANT:Neglect, desert, abandon, stifle, prevent, discourage, abolish, blight, blast,paralyze, eradicate, extirpate, uproot
手打:普里西拉
解釋/意思:
v.i. to till or produce by tillage: to prepare for crops: to devote attention to: to civilise or refine.—adjs. Cul′tivable Cultivat′able capable of being cultivated.—ns. Cultivā′tion the art or practice of cultivating: civilisation: refinement; Cul′tivator.—Cultivate a person's friendship to endeavour to get his good-will.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The English and the Germans (he indignantly declared) were always reviling the Italians for their inability to cultivate the higher kinds of music. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Let no one suppose that the unwillingness to cultivate what Mr. Wells calls the mental hinterland is a vice peculiar to the business man. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It would pay him to get apiece of his head taken off, and cultivate a wen like a carpet sack. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Shortly after the discovery of yeast in the nineteenth century, man commenced his attempt to cultivate the tiny organisms. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I said briefly to the doctor: do _you_ cultivate happiness? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Dear Madam, said Adrian, let me entreat you to see him, to cultivate his friendship. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I mean to begin from this day to cultivate, to polish, and we shall see. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Many cultivated plants display the utmost vigour, and yet rarely or never seed! 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Barren timber for building is of great value in a populous and well-cultivated country, and the land which produces it affords a considerable rent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- When the crown lands had become private property, they would, in the course of a few years, become well improved and well cultivated. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The ignorant distrust of opium (in England) is by no means confined to the lower and less cultivated classes. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I am fast coming to the end of my offences against your cultivated modern taste. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- They cultivated n umerous vegetables, grains, fruits, and flowers. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Neolithic men cultivated and ate wheat, barley, and millet, but they knew nothing of oats or rye. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Jethro Tull in England shortly after invented and introduced a combined system of drilling, ploughing and cultivating. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The proprietor furnished them with the seed, cattle, and instruments of husbandry, the whole stock, in short, necessary for cultivating the farm. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is the subject in connection with which my son first had, I believe, the pleasure of cultivating your acquaintance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Under such conditions, men take revenge, as it were, upon the alien and hostile environment by cultivating contempt for it, by giving it a bad name. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Even without the latter support the cultivating civilization of China has enormous powers of permeation and extension. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The mass of the population was living then very much as it lives to-day; dressing, cultivating, and building its houses in much the same fashion. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must loose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- You cultivate society and society cultivates you, but Mr Riah's not society. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- America best cultivates what Germany brought forth. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Nor yet by reason of a knowledge which cultivates the earth; that would give the city the name of agricultural? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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