- n. 农场；农庄住宅
- v. 耕作；种植；佃出；种田
名复: farms
动变: 过去式:farmed 过去分词:farmed 现在进行时:farming
farm
KK:[fɑrm] DJ:[fɑːm]
n.[C]
- 农场；饲养场；畜牧场
- 农庄住宅；农家
vt.
- 耕作
- 种植；养殖
- 佃出（土地）[（+out）]
vi.
- 种田，务农；经营农场；从事畜牧业
短语
farm out
- 包出；将……包给别人
辨析
以上来源于：《英汉大辞典》
n.
an area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals.▸a farmhouse.
▸an establishment for breeding, growing, or producing something:
a wind farm.
v.
- make one's living as a farmer. ▸use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals.▸breed or grow (a type of livestock or crop) commercially.
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(farm someone/thing out)
send out or subcontract work to others. ▸arrange for a child to be looked after by someone.
- historical allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee.
Derivative
- farmable adj.
- farming n.
Etymology
ME (orig. denoting a fixed annual amount payable as rent or tax): from OFr. ferme, from med. L. firma ‘fixed payment’, from L. firmare ‘fix, settle’; cf. firm2.
以上来源于：《简明牛津英语词典》
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