| 单词 | green revolution |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen revolution green revolution n. (a) a great increase in the production of cereal crops in a developing country following the introduction of high-yield varieties and the application of scientific methods to agriculture; (b) a dramatic increase in support for or adoption of environmentalist principles or practices. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > farming sciences agriculture1565 georgics1594 geoponics1608 rural science?1750 agricultural science1775 agronomy1796 agronomics1825 agrometeorology1925 agrobiology1930 agroecology1930 agrotechnology1932 agrology1946 agro-ecosystem1949 agriscience1958 green revolution1968 cereology1990 agromechanization2006 the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > types of farming high culture1771 scientific farming1789 metaying1792 high farming1815 petite culture1848 sharefarming1857 urban agriculture1860 bush-farming1866 mixed farming1872 dry farming1878 co-aration1883 co-ploughing1883 smallholding1889 power-farming1913 dry-land farming1914 third(s)-and-fourth(s)1940 link system1950 green revolution1968 1968 W. S. Gaud 8 Mar. in Proc. 10th World Conf. Soc. Internat. Devel. (1969) 236 These and other developments in the field of agriculture contain the makings of a new revolution... I call it the Green Revolution. 1980 Times 2 Sept. 3/7 The party [sc. the Ecology Party] claims to offer a radical alternative outside the terms of reference of the main parties, ‘a green revolution to bring life and vitality back to the wasteland of contemporary politics’. 2006 D. Edgerton Shock of Old (2008) iii. 65 The green revolution in the poor countries mitigated a growing divergence between the agriculture of the rich world and that of the poor. 2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Apr. 50/1 There is a danger..that the rewards of a green revolution could be confined to an ‘eco-elite’ of people building solar homes and driving hybrids. < as lemmas |
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