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crop-dusting

/krop-duhs-ting/US // ˈkrɒpˌdʌs tɪŋ //

耕作,耕种,割草,灭虫

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.

Examples

  • She is wearing a crop top, and Andrew has his arm wrapped around her waist.

  • Speaking of the literature you love, the Bloomsbury writers crop up in your collection repeatedly.

  • Images of the hotel crop up repeatedly in his paintings, sometimes plagued by bats or monsters.

  • The Old-Fashioned is the crème of the cocktail crop—according to Don Draper, at least.

  • “Now get on your knees and crawl,” he demanded with the slap of a leather horse crop against the palm of his hand.

  • First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?

  • But before he could even sow that year's crop, he would have to see a certain banker who lived in Nebraska.

  • But poverty accompanied by crop failures for three years was a general and accepted thing now.

  • It happened that an unusually large crop had been planted and was approaching maturity at the moment of the outbreak of the war.

  • True, she had never met the provincial type before, but she doubted if Rosewater had produced a crop of Isabel Otises.