搜尋結果
farm
- IPA[fɑːm]
英式
- an area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals;a farmhouse
- make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock;use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals
verb: farm, 3rd person present: farms, gerund or present participle: farming, past tense: farmed, past participle: farmed
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. an area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals a farm of 100 acres farm workers
- ▪ a farmhouse a half-timbered farm
- ▪ a place for breeding a particular type of animal or producing a specified crop a fish farm
- ▪ a place devoted to producing or promoting something an energy farm
- ▪ a collection of networked computers used together to perform a task too great for a single computer to undertake we are becoming dependent on companies with huge server farms
動詞
- 1. make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock he has farmed organically for years 同義詞
- ▪ use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals marshes are being drained in order to farm the land 同義詞
- ▪ breed or grow (a type of livestock or crop) commercially ostriches are farmed in South Africa and Australia 同義詞
- 2. historical allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum