farm

柯林斯詞典

1. N-COUNT A farm is an area of land, together with the buildings on it, that is used for growing crops or raising animals, usually in order to sell them. 農(nóng)場(chǎng)
Farms in France are much smaller than those in the United States or even Britain. 法國(guó)的農(nóng)場(chǎng)比美國(guó)甚至英國(guó)的都小得多。
2. N-COUNT A mink farm or a fish farm, for example, is a place where a particular kind of animal or fish is bred and kept in large quantities in order to be sold. 養(yǎng)殖場(chǎng)
...trout fresh from a local trout farm. …來(lái)自當(dāng)?shù)匾患阴q魚(yú)養(yǎng)殖場(chǎng)的新鮮鮭魚(yú)。
3. V-T/V-I If you farm an area of land, you grow crops or keep animals on it. 耕種; 養(yǎng)殖
They farmed some of the best land in the country. 他們耕種著該國(guó)最好的一些土地。
Bease has been farming for 30 years. 比斯經(jīng)營(yíng)農(nóng)場(chǎng)已有30年。

Our farm straddles the railway line .
As agriculture became more capital intensive , many farm labourers moved to the towns and cities to look for work .
The fertilizers and pesticides used on many farms are polluting the water supply .
By closing the infected farms we're hoping to confine the disease to the north of the region .
It was hard work on the farm but satisfying .