英汉词典

farm 基本解释

• vi. 种田，务农；经营农场
• n. 农场；农家；畜牧场
• vt. 养殖；耕种；佃出（土地）

farm 词态变化

farm 中文词源

词源有争议。可能来自拉丁语firma, 固定付款，固定收租。而词义过渡到农场或农庄本身是较新的引申义。更多参照farmer.

farm 英文词源

farm

farm: [13] The specifically agricultural connotations of farm are surprisingly recent. The word comes ultimately from Latin firmāre ‘make firm, fix’, which produced a medieval Latin derived noun firma, denoting ‘fixed payment’. English acquired the word via Old French ferme, and originally used it in just this sense (‘I will each of them all have 4d to drink when they pay their farm’, Bury Wills 1463); something of this early sense is preserved in the verbal usage farm out, which to begin with signified ‘rent out’.

By the 16th century the noun was shifting semantically from ‘fixed (rental) payment’ to ‘land leased for such payment, for the purpose of cultivation’, but only very gradually did the notion of a farm being specifically a leased piece of land die out.
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farm (n.)

c. 1300, "fixed payment (usually in exchange for taxes collected, etc.), fixed rent," from Old French ferme "a rent, lease" (13c.), from Medieval Latin firma "fixed payment," from Latin firmare "to fix, settle, confirm, strengthen," from firmus "firm" (see firm (adj.)).

Sense of "tract of leased land" is first recorded early 14c.; that of "cultivated land" (leased or not) is 1520s. A word of confused history, but there is agreement that "the purely agricultural sense is comparatively modern" [Century Dictionary]. There is a set of Old English words that appear to be related in sound and sense; if these, too, are from Latin it would be a very early borrowing. Some books strenuously defend a theory that the Anglo-Saxon words are original (perhaps related to feorh "life").

Phrase buy the farm "die in battle," is at least from World War II, perhaps a cynical reference to the draftee's dream of getting out of the war and going home, in many cases to a peaceful farmstead. But fetch the farm is prisoner slang from at least 1879 for "get sent to the infirmary," with reference to the better diet and lighter duties there.

farm (v.)

mid-15c., "to rent (land)," from Anglo-French fermer, from ferme "a rent, lease" (see farm (n.)). The agricultural sense is from 1719. Original sense is retained in to farm out.

farm 词组搭配

farm 英文释义

1. workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit;

"it takes several people to work the farm"

farm 双语例句

1. His most prized time, though, will be spent quietly on his farm.

不过，他最宝贵的时光将在自己的农场里平静地度过。

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2. I came to live at the farm by happenstance.

我来到该农场住下纯属偶然。

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3. You lived on the farm until you came back to America?

你回美国之前一直生活在农场吗？

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4. In 1970 the average size of a French farm was 19 hectares.

1970年，法国农场的平均规模为19公顷。

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5. The farm is open to the public only during two open-house weekends.

该农场仅在两个周末接待日才对公众开放。

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farm 实用场景例句

a 200-hectare farm

一个200公顷的农场

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a farm worker/labourer

农场工人

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farm buildings/machinery

农场建筑物；农业机械

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to live/work on a farm

在农场居住 / 工作

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a trout/mink/pig farm

鳟鱼养殖场；水貂饲养场；养猪场

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The family has farmed in Kent for over two hundred years.

这个家族在肯特务农两百多年了。

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They farm dairy cattle.

他们饲养奶牛。

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He farmed 200 acres of prime arable land.

他耕种了200英亩良田。

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organically farmed produce

有机种植农产品

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The company farms out a lot of work to freelancers.

这家公司把大量工作包给了个体人员。

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They farmed some of the best land in Scotland...

他们耕种着苏格兰最好的一部分土地。

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He has lived and farmed in the area for 46 years.

他已在此地生活耕作了 46 年。

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...trout fresh from a local trout farm.

刚刚从当地鲑鱼养殖场捕捞的新鲜鲑鱼

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Farms in France are much smaller than those in the United States or even Britain.

法国的农场比美国甚至是英国的农场都要小很多。

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Good standing takes users easy; price makes users gratified and excellent after - sales service reassures users.

产品信誉让用户放心, 价格让您称心,售后服务让您安心.

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All local farmers protested against building the new airport on their farm land.

当地农民抗议在他们的农田上建新飞机场.

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In those remote mountains people used to farm by the slash and burn method.

那个偏僻山区,过去是刀耕火种.

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The stands were overflowing with farm and sideline products.

集市上农副产品非常丰富.

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The farm woman's hands were rough with hand work.

这个农妇常干粗活,手很粗糙.

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He has twenty head of cattle on the farm.

他在农场养了20头牛.

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All these have helped raise farm yields steadily.

所有这些都有助于农业产量的稳步提高.

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His father ran a farm in Northwestern United States.

他父亲在美国西北部经营一个农场.

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A lot of farm tools are piled in the storehouse.

库房里堆放着许多农具.

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He hired out as a farm worker.

他外出当农工.

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They bartered farm products for machinery.

他们用农产品交换机器.

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