Farmer
['fɑːmə] or ['fɑmɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who operates a farm.
(noun.) an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915).
(noun.) United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920).
丹整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who farms
(n.) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.
(n.) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.
(n.) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.
(n.) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
校對:帕蒂
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Agriculturist, husbandman, cultivator of the soil.[2]. Collector, tax-gatherer; lessee of taxes, custom, &c.
校對:玛吉
例句/造句/用法:
- His father was a farmer, that's true; but his mother was a sort of lady, as we know. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Cato and Varro, Virgil and Columella, Pliny and Palladius delighted to instruct the farmer and praise his occupation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In every improved society, the farmer is generally nothing but a farmer; the manufacturer, nothing but a manufacturer. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A sumptuous man was the Farmer-General. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Food--that was the problem of those long tired years which dragged through the ages, when nearly everyone was a farmer, and a farmer with crude tools held in his hands. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- An invention of such great value to the farmer naturally advertised itself through the country districts. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The ordinary Roman citizen, like the ordinary Boer, was a farmer; at the summons of his country he went on commando. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Why, he began by being a small Shropshire farmer before they made a baited bull of him, said Mr. George. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I was in the service of a farmer; and with crook in hand, my dog at my side, I shepherded a numerous flock on the near uplands. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- In the heath's barrenness to the farmer lay its fertility to the historian. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- It is a tax upon the supposed profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I happened to say, I thought it was a pity they had not been landed in Pennsylvania, as in that country almost every farmer had his wagon. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I've been a sheep-farmer, stock-breeder, other trades besides, away in the new world, said he; many a thousand mile of stormy water off from this. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- We have seen that Pasteur was the son of a tanner, Priestley of a cloth-maker, Dalton of a weaver, Lambert of a tailor, Kant of a saddler, Watt of a shipbuilde r, Smith of a farmer. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- To this they only replied with a smile of contempt, saying, that the farmer had instructed me very well in my lesson. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Landlords and farmers, besides, two of the largest classes of masters, have another reason for being pleased with dear years. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I had amongst my scholars several farmers' daughters: young women grown, almost. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- After small proprietors, however, rich and great farmers are in every country the principal improvers. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- And the farmers take in lodgers. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- We see this acted on by farmers and gardeners in their frequent exchanges of seed, tubers, etc. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- At first, the farm of the town was probably let to the burghers, in the same manner as it had been to other farmers, for a term of years only. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The traveller with the cart was a reddleman--a person whose vocation it was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The possession, even of such farmers, however, was long extremely precarious, and still is so in many parts of Europe. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The farmers of the public revenue never find the laws too severe, which punish any attempt to evade the payment of a tax. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But as the Roman Empire grew, its armies absorbed its intelligent farmers, the tilling of the soil was left to the menial and the slave, and the Empire and agriculture declined together. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are, in general, not tenanted nor leased out to farmers. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The people of America are chiefly farmers and planters; scarce anything that they raise or produce is an article of commerce with the Indians. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The people concerned in the finances, the farmers-general, the receivers of the taxes which are not in farm, the court-bankers, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- By the next year McCormick was pushing his Gorham binder on the market, and the farmers who had wavered in their allegience to his reaper were returning to the McCormick fold. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Some provinces are exempted from the exclusive sale of tobacco, which the farmers-general enjoy through the greater part of the kingdom. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
整理:罗拉