单词 | rural-bred |
释义 | > as lemmasrural-bred rural-bred adj. ΚΠ 1704 T. D'Urfey Night-adventures in Tales Tragical & Comical 181 Mine Host, home-spun, and rural bred,..Had thriving Competence attain'd. 1860 Christian Examiner Jan. 54 The intelligent rural-bred boy recognizes every bird indigenous to his precinct by the faintest note of its song. 1949 D. Ensminger & T. W. Longmore in C. C. Taylor et al. Rural Life U.S. ix. 157 Many people were profoundly shocked at the unfavorable showing made by rural-bred men in the examination of selectees for service during World War II. 2008 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 6 Dec. A whole cohort of liberal-minded, rural-bred policymakers like Mr Zhao Ziyang, then CCP general secretary, was swept aside. < as lemmas |
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