| 单词 | to cultivate one's garden |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cultivate one's (own) garden P3. to cultivate one's (own) garden: to attend to one's own affairs. [After French cultiver son jardin (1760 in the passage translated in quot. 1789, with allusion to use in an (ostensibly) literal context in Voltaire's Candide: compare quot. 1759).] ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > lack of social communications or relations [verb (intransitive)] to keep quarterc1550 uncompane1589 to have nothing to say to (also with)1603 to live in (also within) oneself1644 to keep oneself to oneself1748 to fight shy1778 to cultivate one's (own) garden1789 to hoe one's own row1832 1759 tr. Voltaire Candid xxx. 132 All that is very well, answered Candid, but let us take care of our garden [Fr. il faut cultiver notre jardin].] 1789 T. Holcroft tr. Frederick II Let. in Posthumous Wks. Frederic II VIII. ccxcii. 7 You do well to follow the advice of Candide, and to be satisfied with cultivating your garden [à cultiver votre jardin]. 1841 Foreign Missionary Chron. Mar. 82 To cultivate our garden at home before going to the vast outfield of the world. 1872 J. Fiske Class-Room Taine 137 Capable..of deciding with Candide, that the best thing one can do is ‘to cultivate one's garden’. 1933 L. Strachey Characters & Comm. i. ii. 13 The precept ‘Il faut cultiver notre jardin’ has come down to the degenerate descendants of Candide in the form of ‘Have an eye to the main chance’—a very different exhortation. The twentieth century has learned to cultivate its garden so well that it makes a profit of ten per cent. 1955 R. M. MacIver Pursuit of Happiness iv. 35 We must cultivate our own garden and find the joy of doing it in our own hearts. 2003 J. Little in J. Little & M. Mentzer High-Intensity Training Mike Mentzer Way Preface p. x Mentzer preferred to work on his own terms; he..published his own books, produced his own audiotapes, and forever cultivated his own garden. < as lemmas |
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