英语词汇“to work the land”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. transitive. To farm, cultivate, till (land, soil, etc.); = labour v. 1b. Also: to cultivate (a plant or crop). to work the land: (originally) to till the land; (now also more generally) to engage in agriculture.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivate or till [verb (transitive)]

begoc890

workOE

tillc1200

exercise1382

dightc1400

labourc1400

manure1416

cultive?1483

tilth1496

culture1510

trim1517

dress1526

subdue1535

toil1552

use1558

farm1570

cultivate1588

tame1601

husbandize1625

culturate1631

to take in1845

OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) iii. 23 Adræfde hine ða of neorxnawange, ðæt he ða eorðan worhte & him ðæron tilode [L. ut operaretur terram].

OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) ix. 20 Noe..began to wyrcenne ðæt land.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. ii. 5 The lord god..had not rayned [altered from yrayned] vpon þe erþe, & was no man þat miȝte wirch þe erþ.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 589 Faat lond, ydonged, moyst, & well ywroght O[y]nons desire.

a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) ii. f. xlix^v God dyd..set hym in paradyse..for that entent that he sholde worke and kepe it.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 51^v Chuse soile for the hop, of the rottenest mould, well donged & wrought.

1622 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 107 The earth is soft and sandy, esy to bee wrought.

1681 T. Delaune & B. Keach Τροπολογία ii. 14 (margin) A husbandman is..one that works the earth.

1744 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. App. ii. 121 in Parl. Papers (1845) XLVIII. 351 For the..raising, planting, and working a vegetable (called Sesamo) extraordinary productive of oyl.

1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 603/1 Never work the land when wet.

1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 263 The common of Rattry..is indeed very barren; but if it were wrought, it would produce turnips and then grass.

1821 Sat. Mag. 15 Sept. 254 The soil shall be wrought without raising into ridge drills in the usual way.

1898 A. Brown First Republic in Amer. 288 Virginia tobacco would pay enormous profits if suitable labor for working the crop in the sickly summer season could be procured.

1921 D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia v. 204 They will do the artificial Government navvy-work at a miserable five francs a day..—anything, anything rather than work the land.

1959 Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Dec. (Suppl.) 7/2 The art of good farming will remain—the art of knowing when and how to work the soil.

1989 T. Parker Place called Bird xxiv. 295 I've four of my children living here in Demus working the land.

2002 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 20 Jan. 57/5 We were working the ground, I was going east on my tractor and a worker who was with me was going west.

单词	to work the land
释义	> as lemmas to work the land a. transitive. To farm, cultivate, till (land, soil, etc.); = labour v. 1b. Also: to cultivate (a plant or crop). to work the land: (originally) to till the land; (now also more generally) to engage in agriculture. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivate or till [verb (transitive)] begoc890 workOE tillc1200 exercise1382 dightc1400 labourc1400 manure1416 cultive?1483 tilth1496 culture1510 trim1517 dress1526 subdue1535 toil1552 use1558 farm1570 cultivate1588 tame1601 husbandize1625 culturate1631 to take in1845 OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) iii. 23 Adræfde hine ða of neorxnawange, ðæt he ða eorðan worhte & him ðæron tilode [L. ut operaretur terram]. OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) ix. 20 Noe..began to wyrcenne ðæt land. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. ii. 5 The lord god..had not rayned [altered from yrayned] vpon þe erþe, & was no man þat miȝte wirch þe erþ. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 589 Faat lond, ydonged, moyst, & well ywroght O[y]nons desire. a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) ii. f. xlix^v God dyd..set hym in paradyse..for that entent that he sholde worke and kepe it. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 51^v Chuse soile for the hop, of the rottenest mould, well donged & wrought. 1622 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 107 The earth is soft and sandy, esy to bee wrought. 1681 T. Delaune & B. Keach Τροπολογία ii. 14 (margin) A husbandman is..one that works the earth. 1744 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. App. ii. 121 in Parl. Papers (1845) XLVIII. 351 For the..raising, planting, and working a vegetable (called Sesamo) extraordinary productive of oyl. 1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 603/1 Never work the land when wet. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 263 The common of Rattry..is indeed very barren; but if it were wrought, it would produce turnips and then grass. 1821 Sat. Mag. 15 Sept. 254 The soil shall be wrought without raising into ridge drills in the usual way. 1898 A. Brown First Republic in Amer. 288 Virginia tobacco would pay enormous profits if suitable labor for working the crop in the sickly summer season could be procured. 1921 D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia v. 204 They will do the artificial Government navvy-work at a miserable five francs a day..—anything, anything rather than work the land. 1959 Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Dec. (Suppl.) 7/2 The art of good farming will remain—the art of knowing when and how to work the soil. 1989 T. Parker Place called Bird xxiv. 295 I've four of my children living here in Demus working the land. 2002 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 20 Jan. 57/5 We were working the ground, I was going east on my tractor and a worker who was with me was going west. extracted from workv. < as lemmas
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