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farming

/fahr-ming/US // ˈfɑr mɪŋ //UK // (ˈfɑːmɪŋ) //

耕作,耕种,养殖业,耕耘

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the business of operating a farm.
    • : the practice of letting or leasing taxes, revenue, etc., for collection.

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Examples

  • Harvesting your own meat is a way to opt out of the distasteful aspects of factory farming.

  • This shift in our nature is sometimes traced to the Industrial Revolution, or further back to the birth of science, or perhaps the invention of farming.

  • All of this has given rise to the newer phenomenon of “yield farming” in which traders lend or borrow cryptocurrency not just to receive interest or a loan, but to receive new types of digital tokens.

  • You’re talking thousands of dollars in lost revenue each time, and farming is such a thin-margin business.

  • Over six years of farming, he can’t remember losing more than 25 in a shipment before.

  • Two-thirds of the 22 million people in West Africa depend on farming to live.

  • Good American Future Fund-associated politicians are on the side of industrialized farming.

  • Singer argues that eating meat is almost always wrong, due to the immense amount of suffering caused by factory farming.

  • The new immigrants declared their intention to take up farming.

  • Nathan learned everything he could about farming and ranching.

  • He annually has a gathering of distinguished farmers and others to inspect his estate and see how his "book farming" gets on.

  • His parents were of the well-to-do farming class, occupied from one year's end to the other with the work of the fields.

  • I know for a fact, that his race horses literally ran away with the prettiest bit of Kentucky farming land I ever laid eyes upon.

  • British pasture farming was to be annihilated, and an immense stimulus given to that of our continental rivals.

  • As the settlers pushed westward, more and more of the Indians' hunting grounds were being seized and used for farming.