Breeding

(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' .

迦勒编辑

• Of course, my fair readers would not have me guilty of such extreme ill-breeding as to differ in opinion from a noble duke! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And if care was not taken in the breeding, your dogs and birds would greatly deteriorate? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• No blame attached to the officers--that lying and disaster-breeding verdict so common to our softhearted juries is seldom rendered in France. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Next came Napier, who, with his usual ill-breeding, began to whisper in Julia's ear. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• 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. 科学通论.
• 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·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Five and thirty, good-looking, good figure, good teeth, good voice, good breeding, well-dressed, dark hair, bold eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• For why do we blame all gross and injurious language, unless it be, because we esteem it contrary to good breeding and humanity? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This is a matter of mere common politeness and good-breeding, and has nothing to do with any encouragement to people to marry. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• But there IS something in good breeding after all! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• This strip of land from ocean to ocean abounded in disease-breeding swamps and filthy habitations unfit for human beings. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• True, she was sadly prejudiced, and very ignorant; but that was to be expected from her southern breeding. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The rules of good breeding condemn whatever is openly disobliging, and gives a sensible pain and confusion to those, with whom we converse. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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