喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˈfɑːrmɪŋ/ · /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/農業；耕作

    The work or business of growing crops or keeping animals on a farm, either as a way of making a living or as a whole industry.

    示範例句 · Example

    Farming methods have changed a lot over the last hundred years.

    逐字農法在過去一百年之中改變了很多。

    farming 的核心意思是「在農場上種作物、養動物這件工作」，而且它一次蓋住兩邊：種東西（rice farming 稻作）跟養動物（dairy farming 酪農業）在英文裡都叫 farming，中文卻會分成「耕作」和「養殖／畜牧」兩個詞，這是台灣讀者最容易漏掉的一半。可以想成：動作是 farm（務農、耕種），加上 -ing 就變成這整行工作的名字，就像 build 變成 building、teach 變成 teaching。它不可數，所以不說 a farming；很常放在另一個名詞前面——farming methods（農法）、a farming community（農村）。

    常見搭配

    • organic farming

      有機農業、有機農法

      farming that does not use artificial chemicals

      The shop explains the environmental benefits of organic farming.

    • sheep/dairy/livestock farming

      養羊業／酪農業／畜牧業

      farming that is based on keeping a particular kind of animal

      Dairy farming is common in the cooler parts of the island.

    • intensive farming

      集約農業

      farming that produces a lot of food from a small area of land

      Intensive farming gets more rice from the same field.

    • a farming community

      農村、務農的社區

      a village or area where most people live by farming

      It is a small farming community of about 1,000 people.

    • a farming method

      農法、務農的方式

      a particular way of growing crops or keeping animals

      Her grandfather still uses an old farming method for the rice.

    • the farming industry

      農業（整個產業）

      all the businesses in a country that grow food or keep animals

      The farming industry provides most of the vegetables we eat.

core核心畫面

Picture not one farm but the whole activity: ground being turned, seed going in, animals being fed and moved, year after year. The word names the doing itself — it can zoom in on one person's daily work and way of earning a living, or zoom out to the entire industry a country lives on.

可以想成：鏡頭不是對著某一座農場，而是對著「這件事情本身」——翻土、下種、餵牲口、趕在天氣變壞前收割，一年一年地循環。這個字指的是這整套活動；鏡頭可以拉近，變成一個人靠什麼吃飯（他做的是 farming），也可以拉遠，變成整個國家的一個產業。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

farmingnoun/ˈfɑːmɪŋ/

  • 1

    The business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc.

    • Gardening, then, is a sort of refined farming upon a limited scale.
    • Farming was among the earliest of civilized man's occupations, [...]
  • 2

    A farming operation; a farm, or instance of farming on a piece of land.

    • We discharge them also of all Farmings of Benefices, and Church Lands, or Goods, of which they were spoiled by those who Commanded under their General.
    • After Agricultural Foundation Law was enacted in 1961, the expansion of scale of farm business, the improvement of agricultural foundation, the spread of diversified farming with livestock, the mechanization and the rationalization of farming have accelerated viable farmings.

farmingadj/ˈfɑːmɪŋ/

  • 1

    Pertaining to the agricultural business.

  • 2

    Raising livestock or fish.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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