cultivate

英 ['kʌltɪveɪt] 美 ['kʌltɪveɪt]

• vt. 栽培；耕作；培养；陶冶；结交(朋友)

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 耕作,种植

   prepare and use (land, soil, etc.) for growing crops

2. vt. 陶冶思想、感情

   make (the mind, feelings, etc.) more educated and refined

3. vt. 培养(友谊)

   encourage the growth of (friendship with sb)

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 栽培
2. 结交
3. 培育
4. 培养
5. 耕作
6. 养殖
7. 陶冶
8. 耕种
9. 开垦
10. 培土
11. 建立
12. 教化
13. 加强
14. 养成
15. 修习
16. 磨炼
17. 谋求
18. 追求
19. 发展
20. 细心照料
21. 跟…交朋友
22. 种植
23. 培养（友谊）
24. 逐渐形成
25. 耕耘

英英释义

Verb:

1. foster the growth of

2. prepare for crops;

   "Work the soil"
   "cultivate the land"
   

3. teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment;

   "Cultivate your musical taste"
   "Train your tastebuds"
   "She is well schooled in poetry"
   

4. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment;

   "domesticate oats"
   "tame the soil"
   

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. He was granted many privileges to cultivate crops.
   他被给予许多特权来培育农作物。
2. They moved to the country to cultivate the soil .
   他们搬到乡下去种地。
3. The people cultivate mainly rice and beans.
   这里的人们主要种植稻子和豆类。
4. Father tries to cultivate my love for art.
   父亲企图培养我对艺术的爱好。
5. Tom tried to cultivate good study habits.
   汤姆试着去培养良好的读书习惯。
6. It takes some time to cultivate a new friendship.
   培育新的友情需要花费一些时间。
7. Extensive reading can cultivate your mind.
   广泛阅读能陶冶你的心性。
8. He always tries to cultivate famous people.
   他总是结交名人。
9. You must cultivate people who can help you in business.
   你得结交在业务上对你有用的人。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. The farmer is cultivating his land.
   农民在耕耘土地。
2. She cultivated her mind by reading many books.
   她博览群书,修身养性。
3. One should cultivate good manners from childhood.
   一个人从小要学讲礼貌。
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4. Corn and cotton are extensively cultivated in this region.
   这个地区普遍种植玉米和蔬菜。
5. Pearls are being cultivated on the South China Sea coast.
   南海沿岸在进行珍珠人工养殖。
6. This field has not been cultivated for years.
   这块土地已荒废多年了。

经典引文

• The previous owners had cultivated fruit and vegetables, but everything was now overgrown.

  出自： C. Priest

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

cultivate with (v.+prep.)

用…耕种 use a tool or machine for growing crops on the land or soil
cultivate sth with sth
Farmers cultivate their farms with spade.

农夫用锄耕田。
They cultivate their land with tractors.

他们用拖拉机耕地。
The land is cultivated with rice, cotton and vegetables.

在这块土地上种植大米、棉花和蔬菜。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• cultivate bacteria fertilizers 培养细菌肥料
• cultivate edible seaweed〔kelp〕 培养食用海草〔海带〕
• cultivate cadres 培养干部
• cultivate faculty 培养能力
• cultivate a friendship 培养友谊
• cultivate land 耕种
• cultivate a love of art 培养对艺术的爱好
• cultivate a moustache 留胡子
• cultivate a taste for music 培养对音乐的兴趣

～+副词

• cultivate assiduously 专心致志地培养
• cultivate continuously 不断地培养
• cultivate diligently 细心地培养
• cultivate extensively 普遍种植
• cultivate fastidiously 过分讲究地培养
• cultivate freely 随便种植
• cultivate generously 通常种植
• cultivate intensively 集中地培养
• cultivate intellectually 智力地培养
• cultivate passionately 多情地培养
• cultivate profitably 有益地培养
• cultivate sedulously 小心周到地种植
• cultivate systematically 系统地培养

～+介词

• cultivate in citizenship 对市民进行教育
• cultivate with rice〔cotton, vegetables〕 种植水稻〔棉花,蔬菜〕

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. cultivate的基本意思是指对土地进行照料或调理以使其肥沃,也指对植物细心管理以改善其状况。引申可指对合意的东西进行细心周到的照顾以使其健康成长,常用于抽象事物,如“陶冶情操”“培养友谊”等。
2. cultivate作“种植”解,主语是人时不能用被动语态; 主语是事物时则要用被动语态,其后常接介词with。
3. cultivate作“与…结交”解时,指想方设法去结交某人,一般是出于不良的动机或试图巴结别人,常含有贬义。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

cultivate, cherish, foster, nurse, nurture

• 这组词都可表示“照料或培育某人或某事”。其区别在于:nurse通常指养育婴儿或幼兽或照料无力自顾的病人; cherish着重指抚育或爱护; cultivate则指培养某种理想中的事物或感情; foster指鼓励、扶植或促进某事物的增长和发展; nurture则强调对后来发展起决定作用的教养或训练。例如:
• All her time goes into nursing her old father.她的全部时间都用来看护她的老父亲。
• They have cherished the child as one of their own.他们把这个小孩当作自己的亲生子女来抚养。
• He cultivates an appreciation of abstract art.他培养对抽象艺术的鉴赏力。
• The mother tried to foster her son's interest in music by taking him to concerts when he was young.母亲设法培养儿子对音乐的兴趣,在他很小的时候就带他去参加音乐会。
• Nurture your mind with good reading.以优秀的读物来发展你的心智。

nurse，tend，foster，cultivate，cherish

• 这些动词均含“照料、培育”之意。
• nurse通常指对无力自顾的婴儿、病人等进行照料或护理。
• tend指出于责任心、博爱心而不是私人感情去对人或物进行照顾。
• foster指对孩子的关心、鼓励、供养及抚养其成长；也指鼓励、促进事物的增长与发展。
• cultivate具体意义指耕耘、培育植物；抽象意义指培养兴趣或向往的理想事物。
• cherish强调抚育或爱抚。

近反义词

【近义词】

• improve 改善
• develop 发展
• foster 领养
• grow 增加
• plow 犁
• plough 用犁耕田
• farm 农场
• promote 促进
• train 列车
• condition 条件
• prepare 预备
• tend 趋向
• civilize 使开化
• plant 植物
• nurture 养育
• encourage 鼓励
• work on 对 ... 起作用...
• support 支持
• help 帮助
• garden 园地(用于种植花、果、菜...
• culture 栽培
• breed 繁殖
• refine 精炼
• till 直到 ... 为止...
• nurse 护士
• domesticate 驯养
• educate 教育
• naturalise 归入(国籍)
• tame 驯服的
• school 学校
• crop 农作物
• work 工作
• naturalize 使加入国籍
• cherish 珍爱
• civilise 使文明