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farmer

英 ['fɑːmə] 美['fɑmɚ]

英英释义同义词辨析考试真题实用场景例句

近义词planter granger yeoman husbandman

n. 农夫，农民
n. (Farmer)人名；(英)法默；(法)法尔梅；(西)法梅尔

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词态变化

复数: farmers;

中文词源

farmer 农场主

其本义为收租者，收税者。其本身没有土地所有权，只拥有土地耕作权或再租给下一级耕作者的权利，并向下一级耕作者收取土地的地租，上交给土地所有者，即封建领主或地主。后该词受farm影响用来指农场主。

英英释意

1. a person who operates a farm

英文词源

farmer (n.): late 14c., "one who collects taxes, etc.," from Anglo-French fermer, Old French fermier "lease-holder," from Medieval Latin firmarius, from firma "fixed payment" (see farm (n.)). In the agricultural sense, 1590s, replacing native churl and husbandman.

同义词辨析

farmer, peasant

这两个名词都有"农民"之意。

farmer：主要指经营大片土地的农场主。

peasant：一般指无地、少地或经营小块土地的农民。

考试真题

Mr.Kibara and hundreds of other farmers have been removing some of their tea bushes and planting a new kind of tea developed by the Tea Research Foundation of Kenya.

All appears to be well, but the farmers who planted the bushes are worried.

Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers' markets in the U.S. as there were 20 years ago.

While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.

When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.

In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.

In poor, dry regions, untreated wastewater is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

Farmers and consumers may be affected by harmful bacteria.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

Vernon Bowman, a 75-year-old farmer from rural Indiana, did something that got him sued.

If this were a Hollywood movie, the courageous old Indiana farmer would beat the profit-minded corporation before the credits rolled

If farmers like Bowman are able to use these seeds without paying the designated fee, it will remove the incentives for companies like Monsanto to innovate.

He said "Monsanto should not be able, just because they've got billions of dollars to spend on legal fees, to try to terrify farmers into obeying their agreements by massive force and threats

But Bowman's supporters argue that Monsanto is trying to expand the scope of patents in ways that would enrich big corporations and hurt small farmers.

Allow small farmers to grow genetically modified soybeans

Whether measures should be introduced to protect small farmers.

In the Netherlands, Shell delivers CO2 to farmers who pipe it into their greenhouses, increasing their yield of fruits and vegetables.

Through using CO2, Dutch farmers have been able to

"My vision is for the subsistence farmer," Farrant says.

And not every farmer has the option of going grass-fed.

Joseph has learned that a farmer has to have a certain mindset to successfully convert.

Reading magazines like The Stockman Grass Farmer and Graze, he got hooked on the idea of grass-fed agriculture.

The idea that all energy and wealth comes from the sun really intrigued him He thought the shorter the distance between the sun and the end product, the higher the profit to the farmer.

Usually a farmer will get to the point where financially, what they're doing is not working.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one advertised as lost in the local paper.

A study found that a strong nifio in 1997-98 helped America's economy grow by 15 billion, partly because of better agricultural harvest, farmers in the midwest gained from extra rain.

A tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local slow money group.

Another reason for corn's rise: the government encourages farmers to grow corn instead of rice to improve water quality.

As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition NYFC (美国青年农会) and a family farmer myself, I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.

Before the tool came out, small farmers couldn't touch the price per pound offered by California farms.

But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.

But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players.

By connecting directly with customers, and by responding quickly to changes in the markets as well as in the ecosystems (生态系统), small farmers can keep one step ahead of the big guys.

Developers, and established large farmers makes owning one's own land unattainable for many new farmers.

Farmers in many countries are also adapting like this—either by growing new produce, or by growing the same things differently.

In 1943, a Mexican farmer was surprised to see smoke rising from a small part of his land.

In my hometown, there is always a harvest supper for the farmers after all the wheat has been cut.

In Peru, local farmers around a mountain with a glacier that has already fallen victim to climate change have begun painting the entire mountain peak white in the hope that the added reflectiveness will restore the life-giving ice.

It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California.

Loans to small local farmers are necessary.

Many farmers opposed the plan because they feared that wolves would kill their farm animals or pets.

Papa, as a son of a dirt-poor farmer, left school early and went to work in a factory, for education was for the rich then.

Small farmers may gain some advantages over big ones.

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.

The Chinese ministry of agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that/which gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.

The conflict between farmers and gray wolves.

The farmer freed him, and he began to run happily around again.

The officer immediately sent a local farmer out to check on the pony.

The sustainable success of small farmers, though, won't happen without fundamental changes to the industry.

There are solutions that could light a path toward a more sustainable and fair farm economy, but farmers can't clumsily put them together before us.

With a new farm bill to be debated in congress, consumers must take a stand with young farmers.

With farmers over the age of 65 outnumbering farmers younger than 35 by six to one, and with two-thirds of the nation's farmland in need of a new farmer, we must clear the path for talented people willing to grow the nation's food.

While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views less fully intellectualized.

实用场景例句

The farmer lassoed the cow.: 农民用套索捕牛.

The farmer is shearing his sheep.: 那农夫正在给他的羊剪毛.

The farmer milks the cows twice a day.: 那农夫一天挤两次母牛的奶.

The farmer peddled his fruit from house to house.: 那个农民挨家挨户兜售他的水果.

The farmer bemoaned his loss.: 农夫抱怨他所受到的损失.

The farmer forked hay.: 这农民用叉子叉干草.

Halfway across the field , the farmer ploughed out some very large stones which nearly broke his machine.: 这个农民在地里犁地犁到半路的时候, 犁出一些很大的石头,几乎弄坏了他的机器.

The farmer bought a doe.: 那位农民买了头雌鹿.

The farmer felt the cow, went away, returned, sorely perplexed, always afraid of being cheated.: 那农民摸摸那头牛, 走了又回来, 犹豫不决, 总怕上当受骗.

The farmer yoked the oxen.: 那个农夫给牛加上轭.

The cagey fox could not be easily trapped by the farmer.: 那只狡猾的狐狸不会轻易落入农夫的陷阱.

The bull gored the farmer to death.: 公牛用角把农夫抵死了.

The farmer has grown the seed a big tree.: 这个农民种下的种子长成了大树.

The farmer is cultivating his land.: 农民在耕耘土地.

The farmer saw the boys off with a heavy stick.: 农夫用一根粗棒赶走了那些男孩.

He is a highly skilled farmer.: 干庄稼活儿,他可是个好把式.

She bought a bushel of apples from the farmer.: 她从农民那里买来一蒲式耳的苹果.

The farmer kept many geese on his pond.: 这位农民在他的池塘里养了许多鹅.

She is the last wife in the world for a farmer.: 她最不适宜作农夫的妻子.

The farmer has just bought a new piece of land.: 这位农民刚刚又买了一块地.

Every farmer knows how to yoke the oxen together.: 每个家民都知道怎样把牛拴在一起.

He has been a farmer for 40 years , man and boy.: 他从小到大当了40年的农民.

He is a farmer and raises pigs and chickens.: 他是个农民,养活猪和鸡.

Farmer Brown's cattle are branded with the letter B.: 农场主布朗的牛都烙上了字母“B”的印记.

The farmer slides the bolt in place to keep the gate from swinging.: 农夫推上门闩,使门不摇晃.

Mr Farmer and Mrs Jones both admitted conspiring to murder her husband.: 法默先生和琼斯太太都承认密谋杀死了琼斯先生。

A bachelor farmer began to call, ostensibly to talk to her father, but really to see her.: 一位单身农场主开始前来拜访，嘴上说是找她的父亲，实际上是想见她。

Any farmer or gardener knows that a milder winter means a longer growing season.: 农民和花匠都知道，冬天越暖和，作物的生长季节便越长。

Ritter was a very complex man but Marius was the opposite, a simple farmer.: 里特城府颇深，而马里厄斯恰恰相反，是个心地淳朴的农民。

As a child in the care of a local authority he had been boarded out with a farmer in Shropshire.: 他童年时由地方政府照管，曾被送到什罗普郡的一户农民家里寄宿。