farming
/ˈfɑːmɪŋ/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈfɑːrmɪŋ/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈfär-miŋ/ (ame, mw)
farming — 名詞
1. the job or activity of producing food, milk, wool, or other products by keeping
農業；農作
在農場種植作物或飼養牲畜的工作
the job or activity of producing food, milk, wool, or other products by keeping animals or growing plants on a piece of land called a farm.
Sumin's family has been doing organic farming in the hills for over thirty years.
Sumin 一家人在山區從事有機農業已經超過三十年。
collocation: organic farming
Charlotte left her city job to start small-scale farming in the countryside.
Charlotte 辭去都市的工作，到鄉下開始經營小型農場。
compound adjective + noun: small-scale farming
Farming methods have changed a lot with better machines and new kinds of seeds.
隨著更好的機器和新型種子的出現，耕作方法已經改變很多。
The drought last year made farming almost impossible for the village of San Marcos.
去年的乾旱讓 San Marcos 村的農事幾乎無法進行。
Maeve grew up on a dairy farm and learned the skills of modern farming.
Maeve 在酪農場長大，學到了現代農耕的各種技能。
- agriculture
more formal and academic; covers the science and economics of food production
- cultivation
focuses specifically on preparing land and growing plants; does not usually include animal raising
- husbandry
refers mainly to raising animals (livestock); less common in everyday speech
- ranching
a specific type of farming focused on cattle or other livestock over large areas of land, especially in North America
文法句型
adjective + farming (e.g. organic farming)
farming + noun (e.g. farming methods)
用法筆記
Used as an uncountable noun. Frequently appears with a preceding adjective that describes the method (organic, intensive, dairy, mixed) or the scale (small-scale, large-scale).