Cultivate

(verb.) prepare for crops; 'Work the soil'; 'cultivate the land'.

(verb.) foster the growth of.

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• The English and the Germans (he indignantly declared) were always reviling the Italians for their inability to cultivate the higher kinds of music. 威尔基·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. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It would pay him to get apiece of his head taken off, and cultivate a wen like a carpet sack. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• 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. 科学通论.
• I said briefly to the doctor: do _you_ cultivate happiness? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Dear Madam, said Adrian, let me entreat you to see him, to cultivate his friendship. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I mean to begin from this day to cultivate, to polish, and we shall see. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Many cultivated plants display the utmost vigour, and yet rarely or never seed! 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• 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. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• When the crown lands had become private property, they would, in the course of a few years, become well improved and well cultivated. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The ignorant distrust of opium (in England) is by no means confined to the lower and less cultivated classes. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I am fast coming to the end of my offences against your cultivated modern taste. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• They cultivated n umerous vegetables, grains, fruits, and flowers. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Neolithic men cultivated and ate wheat, barley, and millet, but they knew nothing of oats or rye. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Jethro Tull in England shortly after invented and introduced a combined system of drilling, ploughing and cultivating. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The proprietor furnished them with the seed, cattle, and instruments of husbandry, the whole stock, in short, necessary for cultivating the farm. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is the subject in connection with which my son first had, I believe, the pleasure of cultivating your acquaintance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• 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. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Even without the latter support the cultivating civilization of China has enormous powers of permeation and extension. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• 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. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• You cultivate society and society cultivates you, but Mr Riah's not society. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• America best cultivates what Germany brought forth. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Nor yet by reason of a knowledge which cultivates the earth; that would give the city the name of agricultural? 柏拉图. 理想国.

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