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词汇 cultivation
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Definition of cultivation in English:

cultivation

noun kʌltɪˈveɪʃnˌkəltəˈveɪʃ(ə)n
mass noun
  • 1The action of cultivating land, or the state of being cultivated.

    the cultivation of arable crops
    the economy was based largely on rice cultivation
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Other cultural practices of tillage, cultivation, herbicide application, and fertility were conducted as considered standard for the region.
    • It is low yields and low incomes and limited opportunities which force the poor to farm the hillside or cut down rainforest or otherwise bring land under cultivation - land that is marginal for agriculture.
    • They developed subsequently, from less communally organized beginnings, chiefly to achieve a better integration of arable and pasture farming as more land was taken into cultivation.
    • Such traditional methods of rice cultivation have proven a good match with today's environmentally-conscious consumers.
    • Use herbicide and cultivation in grain cropping systems to reduce weeds.
    • This success in weed control has resulted primarily from the extensive use of herbicides, changes in crop rotations and a range of cultivation methods.
    • Less than 15 percent of its land is suitable for cultivation.
    • For the first time in living memory significant amounts of arable land were withdrawn from cultivation.
    • The village council or the lineage group did not have effective control over lands under cultivation or fallow fields.
    • More land is also under cultivation and more fertilisers are being used on crops so that there is an increasing amount of fertiliser running off the land and onto inshore reefs.
    • The 3,000 students the academy will be able to take will also learn animal husbandry and crop cultivation to help themselves out of poverty.
    • There is not a land shortage, but not all arable land is under cultivation.
    • Agricultural officials estimate that 150,000 hectares of paddy rice cultivation has been ruined.
    • At present, however, only about 10 percent of the nation's agricultural land is under cultivation, and subsistence farming is all but dead.
    • The third category of tillage is selective cultivation, which is used to control weeds after the crop has emerged from the soil.
    • Now we have a system that will help us reduce or even eliminate the tillage and cultivation that adds to our labor and harms the soil resources we so desperately want to protect.
    • Access to agricultural land for cultivation and capital for undertaking non-farm self-employment is critical.
    • If the government wanted more reasons not to embrace commercial cultivation of genetically modified crops then it need look no further than yesterday's findings.
    • Weeders allow delaying the first cultivation until the crop is large enough to cultivate deeply and rapidly.
    • About 85 percent of all work resides in the traditional agricultural sector, comprising cultivation of crops and rasing of livestock.
    Synonyms
    growing, raising, rearing, farming, culture
    planting, sowing
    agriculture, agronomy, horticulture, husbandry
    tillage
  • 2The process of trying to acquire or develop a quality or skill.

    the cultivation of good staff–management relations
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In a word, teachers are playing a critical role in the cultivation of high quality students.
    • Cultural capital can be gained individually through the process of learning, adaptation, and cultivation.
    • There is a tendency for people on both sides of politics to neglect the cultivation of social skills and personality.
    • The cultivation of detachment encourages an unselfish appreciation and enjoyment of nature without thought of profit and exploitation.
    • Admittedly, dictatorships do not encourage the cultivation of colourful eccentrics such as Montgomery or Patton.
    • The process of building a new society requires - perhaps as much as the development of new institutions-the cultivation of this moral sense.
    • Spiritual advance came from the cultivation of appropriate attitudes rather than outward behaviour.
    • They can be modified and refined through cultivation, but must also come naturally.
    • For the monk the moral discipline underpins cultivation of the mind in meditation; but for both monks and laymen the cultivation of certain mental skills and attitudes could in turn underpin morality.
    • But he repeatedly returned to education and cultivation as central.
    • Moral development is a prerequisite for the cultivation of Meditation and Wisdom.
    • The cultivation of these eight qualities requires both internal and external development.
    • The second half of the text presents practical suggestions for religious cultivation so that readers may develop faith and ultimately attain liberation.
    • But problems in the nation's baseball development due to a lack of systematic cultivation and training is more worrisome.
    • If we entirely ignore the examination of one's character in the recruitment of students, the cultivation of character will never become the core of domestic education.
    • However, the art schools formally disseminated the knowledge of the medium and technique of its usage, alongside cultivation of a taste for it.
    • Networking and the cultivation of contacts are both professional skills and survival skills, as is the continual updating of technological expertise.
    • This rationality, though, is directed at improvement and cultivation of the body rather than the mind.
    • The general strategy of his university reform can be located within the cultivation or development of our essential human capacities.
    • One must mature beyond eating things simply because they taste good and develop an attitude of eating for health preservation and personal cultivation.
    Synonyms
    improvement, bettering
    education, training, development
  • 3Refinement and good education.

    a man of cultivation and taste
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The growth of artistic expressions is a sign of cultivation of sensitivity, of mellowing, of humanism.
    • They were the fellow travellers who prided themselves on their cultural cultivation and their disdain for the brutish loyalty of party members.
    • It's understood as a mark of educated cultivation, not wilful indulgence or evasion.
    • Both show her surrounded by evidence of her cultivation and enlightened tastes in literature, her refined aesthetic sensibilities, and her talent in music.
    • What I have yet to consider is whether this education-or call it cultivation - is in fact there to be hidden.
    • He has the intellect and cultivation of one, and the survival skills and supernatural instincts of the other.
    • His father was a well-known physician, said to be a man of cultivation and taste.
    Synonyms
    culture, culturedness, intellectual/artistic awareness, education, erudition, learning, enlightenment, discrimination, good taste, taste, refinement
    humorous couth

Definition of cultivation in US English:

cultivation

nounˌkəltəˈvāSH(ə)nˌkəltəˈveɪʃ(ə)n
  • 1The action of cultivating land, or the state of being cultivated.

    the cultivation of crops
    the economy was based largely on rice cultivation
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Such traditional methods of rice cultivation have proven a good match with today's environmentally-conscious consumers.
    • Use herbicide and cultivation in grain cropping systems to reduce weeds.
    • The third category of tillage is selective cultivation, which is used to control weeds after the crop has emerged from the soil.
    • At present, however, only about 10 percent of the nation's agricultural land is under cultivation, and subsistence farming is all but dead.
    • For the first time in living memory significant amounts of arable land were withdrawn from cultivation.
    • Other cultural practices of tillage, cultivation, herbicide application, and fertility were conducted as considered standard for the region.
    • More land is also under cultivation and more fertilisers are being used on crops so that there is an increasing amount of fertiliser running off the land and onto inshore reefs.
    • Now we have a system that will help us reduce or even eliminate the tillage and cultivation that adds to our labor and harms the soil resources we so desperately want to protect.
    • If the government wanted more reasons not to embrace commercial cultivation of genetically modified crops then it need look no further than yesterday's findings.
    • Agricultural officials estimate that 150,000 hectares of paddy rice cultivation has been ruined.
    • They developed subsequently, from less communally organized beginnings, chiefly to achieve a better integration of arable and pasture farming as more land was taken into cultivation.
    • This success in weed control has resulted primarily from the extensive use of herbicides, changes in crop rotations and a range of cultivation methods.
    • The village council or the lineage group did not have effective control over lands under cultivation or fallow fields.
    • Less than 15 percent of its land is suitable for cultivation.
    • About 85 percent of all work resides in the traditional agricultural sector, comprising cultivation of crops and rasing of livestock.
    • There is not a land shortage, but not all arable land is under cultivation.
    • The 3,000 students the academy will be able to take will also learn animal husbandry and crop cultivation to help themselves out of poverty.
    • Weeders allow delaying the first cultivation until the crop is large enough to cultivate deeply and rapidly.
    • It is low yields and low incomes and limited opportunities which force the poor to farm the hillside or cut down rainforest or otherwise bring land under cultivation - land that is marginal for agriculture.
    • Access to agricultural land for cultivation and capital for undertaking non-farm self-employment is critical.
    Synonyms
    growing, raising, rearing, farming, culture
    agriculture, agronomy, horticulture, husbandry
  • 2The process of trying to acquire or develop a quality or skill.

    the cultivation of good staff–management relations
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The process of building a new society requires - perhaps as much as the development of new institutions-the cultivation of this moral sense.
    • If we entirely ignore the examination of one's character in the recruitment of students, the cultivation of character will never become the core of domestic education.
    • The cultivation of these eight qualities requires both internal and external development.
    • But he repeatedly returned to education and cultivation as central.
    • One must mature beyond eating things simply because they taste good and develop an attitude of eating for health preservation and personal cultivation.
    • The cultivation of detachment encourages an unselfish appreciation and enjoyment of nature without thought of profit and exploitation.
    • The general strategy of his university reform can be located within the cultivation or development of our essential human capacities.
    • Networking and the cultivation of contacts are both professional skills and survival skills, as is the continual updating of technological expertise.
    • There is a tendency for people on both sides of politics to neglect the cultivation of social skills and personality.
    • Cultural capital can be gained individually through the process of learning, adaptation, and cultivation.
    • But problems in the nation's baseball development due to a lack of systematic cultivation and training is more worrisome.
    • In a word, teachers are playing a critical role in the cultivation of high quality students.
    • They can be modified and refined through cultivation, but must also come naturally.
    • Admittedly, dictatorships do not encourage the cultivation of colourful eccentrics such as Montgomery or Patton.
    • Spiritual advance came from the cultivation of appropriate attitudes rather than outward behaviour.
    • However, the art schools formally disseminated the knowledge of the medium and technique of its usage, alongside cultivation of a taste for it.
    • This rationality, though, is directed at improvement and cultivation of the body rather than the mind.
    • For the monk the moral discipline underpins cultivation of the mind in meditation; but for both monks and laymen the cultivation of certain mental skills and attitudes could in turn underpin morality.
    • Moral development is a prerequisite for the cultivation of Meditation and Wisdom.
    • The second half of the text presents practical suggestions for religious cultivation so that readers may develop faith and ultimately attain liberation.
    Synonyms
    improvement, bettering
  • 3Refinement and good education.

    a man of cultivation and taste
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He has the intellect and cultivation of one, and the survival skills and supernatural instincts of the other.
    • What I have yet to consider is whether this education-or call it cultivation - is in fact there to be hidden.
    • His father was a well-known physician, said to be a man of cultivation and taste.
    • The growth of artistic expressions is a sign of cultivation of sensitivity, of mellowing, of humanism.
    • Both show her surrounded by evidence of her cultivation and enlightened tastes in literature, her refined aesthetic sensibilities, and her talent in music.
    • They were the fellow travellers who prided themselves on their cultural cultivation and their disdain for the brutish loyalty of party members.
    • It's understood as a mark of educated cultivation, not wilful indulgence or evasion.
    Synonyms
    culture, culturedness, artistic awareness, intellectual awareness, education, erudition, learning, enlightenment, discrimination, good taste, taste, refinement
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