| 单词 | farm |
| 释义 | farm (fɑːʳm ) Word forms: farms , farming , farmed 1. countable noun A1 A farm is an area of land, together with the buildings on it, that is used for growing crops or raising animals, usually in order to sell them. Farms in France are much smaller than those in the United States or even Britain. 2. verb If you farm an area of land, you grow crops or keep animals on it. They farmed some of the best land in Scotland. [VERB noun] He has lived and farmed in the area for 46 years. [VERB] Synonyms: cultivate, work, plant, operate 3. countable noun [noun NOUN] B1+ A mink farm or a fish farm, for example, is a place where a particular kind of animal or fish is bred and kept in large quantities in order to be sold. ...trout fresh from a local trout farm. Phrasal verbs: farm out phrasal verb If you say that someone farms out work, especially work that you would normally expect them to do themselves, you mean that they give it to other people to do. The trend for corporate legal staffs is to do more work in-house, instead of farming it out to law firms. [V n P to n] We can take advantage of new technology more quickly by farming out computer operations. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] They've tended to farm out work to consultants. [V P n (not pron) to n] Idioms: buy the farm [US, informal] to die The plane nosedived into the ground and exploded. He bought the farm. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: family farm During the summer they worked on their family farm in Vermont. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Change means selling the family farm. Christianity Today (2000) On the family farm he learnt to be a plumber, a mechanic and an electrician. Times, Sunday Times (2011) There's nothing like the taste of freshly picked fruit and veg, whisked from farm field to plate in just a few hours, and it doesn't have to be expensive. The Sun The first time he came under fire the vehicles in his unit were circled in a farm field. Times, Sunday Times The aircraft had crashed in a farm field, on a heading of 360 degrees. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The damaged pipeline, which was operating at the time, released 1250 oilbbl of crude oil into a farm field. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A memorial park was created at the farm field where the drilling rescue operations occurred. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The farm grows its own vegetables: guests (a maximum of 10 across four apartments) are welcome to muck in or purchase the produce. Times, Sunday Times Along with produce, the farm grows sunflowers, zinnias and nasturtiums. Houston Chronicle His farm grows apples and pears and rears chickens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The farm grows many types of vegetables including wheat, corn, lettuce, pumpkins, broccoli, onions, beans, cucumbers etc. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A large farm grows raspberries for export. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Underground - probably in a cellar where strange farm implements dangle. Times, Sunday Times Valuable timber tree, popular in the making of furniture and farm implements. Times, Sunday Times So do those carrying hoes and farm implements from the fields. The Star (South Africa) The bullwheel (or bull wheel) began use in farm implements with the reaper. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its retail outlets offer foods, groceries, apparel and footwear, lifestyle and home improvement products, electronic goods, and farm implements and inputs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While animals are farmed so intensively, epidemics are bound to happen. The Sun (2007) Organic chicken sold by the retailer costs £7.50 per kg, free range £4.65 and standard intensively farmed £2.11. Times,Sunday Times (2020) The owners created the organic pastures from land that was once intensively farmed. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Traditionally they have worked in tinsmithing and seasonal farm labour. Times, Sunday Times (2007) He's spent the last 3 days (when not doing his farm labouring) damming the stream with his friends. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR (2005) But what she did say was that she was flying to Australia soon, where she was hoping to get farm labouring work. Times, Sunday Times (2014) It appears to have been driven out as farming land extended and trees were cleared. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The wealthiest landowners are already benefiting from the inheritance tax exemption on farming land, and most don't need the pocket money. Times, Sunday Times (2016) She explained that she lived 1½ miles along a forest track through woods and farm land. Times, Sunday Times (2014) These sites include woodland, meadows and farming land. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Our hope is that any unused land should return to farm land. The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food (1988) Not for the first time in this neck of the woods, operating farm machinery and dealing with strong emotions prove to be a lethal combination. The Sun (2015) A specialist rescue team was called out and managed to release him in two hours using a forklift truck and farm machinery. The Sun (2009) The heavy loam soil, once tilled by horses, is unforgiving to modern farm machinery. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Look out for working farm machinery and sudden movements of livestock. Times, Sunday Times (2015) They are too slow to escape logging and farm machinery. The Sun (2007) For example, one tract may be owned by the farm operator and another rented. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Wind farm operators have been paid a record 30 million to switch off this year. Times, Sunday Times In addition to the pharmaceuticals market, it has been re-engineering production in oil and gas companies and wind farm operators. Times, Sunday Times It will have the capacity to make 25 turbines a year but has yet to receive any orders from wind farm operators. Times, Sunday Times Meanwhile, onshore wind farm operators are doubling the height of their turbines in order to increase electricity production. Times, Sunday Times This steak house has organically farmed beef and locally raised bison. Times, Sunday Times (2009) His ideal would be for the entire country to be farmed organically, on small farms. Times, Sunday Times (2010) But to stand up and announce an organic holiday gives out the wrong message, especially to people who are farming organically for the public good. Times, Sunday Times (2008) But a good monsoon has helped to raise farm output by 2.3 per cent in the current year. Times, Sunday Times The cold has put a strain on power supplies because the light winds associated with high pressure caused wind farm output to plummet. Times, Sunday Times Droughts hit the 2004-05 harvest, curbing growth in farm output to 0.7 per cent and trimming growth of the economy from 8.5 to 7.5 per cent. Times, Sunday Times Quotas linked to farm output mean that prices are maintained at artificial levels. Times, Sunday Times Along with record wind farm output in the stormy weather, they reduced the amount of gas needed for power generation and helped the crisis to pass without cutting off supplies. Times, Sunday Times He reckons that a typical farm owner will see a neighbouring property come on the market once in a genera-tion. Times, Sunday Times The farm owner questioned whether the footage was filmed there. Times, Sunday Times One farm owner, who breeds the crocodiles for meat and skin, said that 60 staff were working around the clock. Times, Sunday Times It was used in 1595 and destroyed by a farm owner in 1809. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He worked as a farm owner and for an insurance agency. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Fish farm production jumped from 47m tons in 2006 to nearly 64m tons in 2011. Times, Sunday Times Postwar development was slow and while farm production increased the population expanded only a little and latterly declined. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Farm production began during the 1994 growing season. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The integrators provide the chicks, feed, medication, part of the fuel for brooding, and technical advisers to supervise farm production. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The average value of agricultural products sold per farm was $21,451 while the average total farm production expenses per farm was $19,413. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Aerial imagery shows no trace of the facility, and a county farm road was constructed over the former military airfield. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A smaller farm road bears to the left and continues to follow the valley. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On the farm road which approaches the peak there are a number of green huts which are used as holiday dwellings or allotments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On rough farm roads, it often grows on the ridge that gets left in the middle between the vehicle tracks. Times, Sunday Times He drove 'on the back roads or farm roads, not legally, but quietly in the middle of the night when there were no police around'. Times, Sunday Times The government has pledged to maintain the level of farm subsidy until 2022. Times, Sunday Times A foreign secretary who cannot pay a farm subsidy on time and a departing prime minister desperate for no rain on his parade did not make a convincing pair. Times, Sunday Times He insisted that the target had not been abandoned as part of a deal to secure a more modest cut for onshore wind farm subsidies. Times, Sunday Times The blow comes before the announcement of new wind farm subsidies — paid for by households. The Sun Sceptics have railed against wind farm subsidies and rightly questioned why surface air temperatures have increased much less than expected over the past 15 years. Times, Sunday Times He worked as a farmer, stockman, and in the hardware and farm supply business. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Activities related to farming (farm supply shops and produce purchase points) are also prevalent in the town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The buildings housed a wholesale farm supply company, wholesale grocers and produce shops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There, it first destroyed a transfer company and a farm supply store. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Security lights are readily available from most hardware or farm supply stores. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When challenged, his company said the halibut was sustainably farmed in Norway. Times, Sunday Times (2011) They have the local knowledge but my job was to help communities to farm sustainably and also to raise the charity's profile. Times, Sunday Times (2008) We need to feed a growing population without wrecking the land, but it's almost impossible to farm sustainably and break even, let alone make a profit. Times,Sunday Times (2020) He worked as a farmhand from age 7, then later as a railroad section hand, a farm tenant, and as a share-cropper. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It seems there are also tensions with some of the trust's farm tenants. Times, Sunday Times The colleges first farm tenants primed the land for agricultural experimentation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The farm tenants vacated their houses to comply with the government's requirements. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although he received no payment, he was working on the understanding that he would eventually inherit the farm. Times, Sunday Times But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was customary for the first son to inherit the farm and the second son to enter the priesthood. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Inherited the farm from his grandfather, now lives on it with his three best friends. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He inherited the farm from his father in 1958, and passed it on to his son in 1989. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But as you live in an isolated farm area, this might not work: you need dozens, or hundreds, of others to share the cost. Times, Sunday Times By 1945 he was living alone on the isolated farm. Times, Sunday Times It was, and remains today, an area of isolated farms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 From parts of that domain arose around 1082 the other settlements and isolated farms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He began to travel and collect material at the start of the 20th century, often meeting singers on isolated farms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's a working livestock farm and you would stay in well-equipped bell tents, with breakfast included. Times, Sunday Times It consists of a cluster of buildings on a knoll in the center of a 310 acre working grain and livestock farm. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This can be seen by the many farms, both large and small livestock farm. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Outdoor teaching facilities include a managed woodlot, a challenge course, a climbing tower, managed gardens, and a working livestock farm with two solar powered barns. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has one horticulture, one agronomy and one livestock farm extended in 252 ropani in and around the campus area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For instance, he gave more to those who stayed home and helped operate the farm. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has been maintained to look much as it did in the 1930s when electricity replaced steam to operate the farm machinery. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He taught until 1882, and later became a successful attorney, but continued to operate a farm. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The owners operate a farm stand on a seasonal basis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The labor needed to operate the farm and provide old-age support came from family members, fertility was high. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Imagine you live next to a highly productive farm. Times, Sunday Times We have never objected to dredging proposals and have backed an extensive investment programme to ensure people, productive farm businesses and wildlife can continue to benefit from this unique landscape. Times, Sunday Times Here, the riparian zone again supports an extensive community of swamps, meadows, cottonwood groves, and productive farm lands. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The soil of the plain left behind may constitute fertile and productive farm land, due to the previous accumulation of lacustrine sediments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The marsh was turned into productive farm land in past centuries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A body has been found on a remote farm. The Sun (2015) She met her husband when a farmer sent her to his remote farm to borrow a ram. The Sun (2014) They had been hidden away in the hills and forests and remote mountain farms. Times, Sunday Times (2006) His enterprising father had acquired enough land to run a small farm. Times, Sunday Times (2013) I run a small farm with an equine business. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Hear all about how the farm is run and see the animals, including some newborn calves. Times, Sunday Times (2015) There they bought a small farm and raised sheep. Times,Sunday Times I run a small farm with an equine business. Times, Sunday Times He said that they had hidden it in a small farm reservoir to preserve it. Times, Sunday Times Since then, it's also been a small farm and had bits added on to it. Times, Sunday Times They are clinging to their small farm, their neighbours having been bought out by the local quarry company. Times, Sunday Times He would receive 900 an acre each year for renting the land to the solar farm, about ten times the typical agricultural rent. Times, Sunday Times So how to explain the fourth major industrial-scale solar farm that has applied for planning in the county in recent months? Times, Sunday Times The 30,000 spectators expected over the weekend will have their tickets checked by scanners charged from a solar farm installed in the park. Times, Sunday Times The supermarket has signed contracts to buy power from five new onshore wind farms as well as a new solar farm. Times,Sunday Times Officials should have told councillors this, and the solar farm should not have been approved. Times, Sunday Times The project has admirable aims: to create an ethical and sustainable farm where people can get together to learn about animals and the environment. Times, Sunday Times Participants learn how to dive on the course, as well as how to run a sustainable farm. Times, Sunday Times The business has 23 sites around the country producing more than 2.5m tonnes of feed a year for all main livestock groups, and trades with more than 3,000 sustainable farms. Times, Sunday Times Many crop mob participants are apprentices or interns on these sustainable farms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It also functions as a working urban farm, operated by the sustainable development organization. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Today the company employs full- and part-time sales managers, urban farm and facilities experts, and horticulturists. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Examples of this include urban farm programs and incorporating healthful foods in schools. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But for riding lessons in the capital there are urban farms. Times, Sunday Times Nothing on wildlife or urban farms. Times, Sunday Times A collection of eight beautifully converted barns on a working farm. The Sun (2016) The spot was idyllic, with no working farm or farmhouse nearby, just fields to all sides. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Later the bastide became a working farm, and then gradually fell derelict. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Translations: Chinese: 农场, 耕种 Japanese: 農場, 耕作する |
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