4周搞定2000+托福核心词
agricultural = agri(田地) + cult(耕作) + ure(表名词) + al(...的) = 耕作田地的→农业的
monoculture = mono(单一) + cult(耕作) + ure(行为) = 单一耕作的行为→单一栽培
activate = act(做) + ivate(表动词) = 使……活动
captivating = capt(握住) + ivate(表动词) + ing(形容词) = 抓住的，迷惑住的→迷人的
abrasion = ab(表加强) + ras(刮擦) + ion(表名词) = 磨损
abstraction = abs(离去) + tract(拉) + ion(表名词) = 被拉开→抽象
耕作；教养
cultivation
常考释义
But because it doesn't grow naturally, without human cultivation, and because there's no obvious wild relative of maize, um, well, for the longest time researchers weren't able to find any clear link between maize and other living plants.
但是因为玉米不是自然长成的，必须要有人类的有意栽培，而且因为玉米并没有什么显而易见的野生的亲属，嗯，所以很长时间研究者都找不到任何玉米和其他植物的清楚联系。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL51 L1n. 耕作；耕种
Farmers with many acres under cultivation profited.
耕种大片土地的农场主挣到了钱。
This land is feasible for cultivation.
这块地适合耕作。
I saw some terrain that looked good for cultivation.
我看到有许多很适合耕种的地形。
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New lands were put under cultivation, while the use of crops of American origin, particularly the potato, continued to expand.
（人们）开辟新的土地用来耕种，而种植美国本土作物，尤其是马铃薯，其规模还在继续扩大。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL51 P3For example, he argued that the introduction of domesticated vines and olives allowed a substantial expansion of land under cultivation and helped to power the emergence of complex society.
例如，他认为，引进家种的葡萄和橄榄使得大量耕种土地扩张，并有利于推动更加复杂的社会的出现。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL41 P3As time went on, such communities gradually learned how to direct the flow of water to enhance the productive capacity of the land, while the introduction of the iron plow eventually led to the cultivation of heavy soils not previously susceptible to agriculture.
随着时间的推移，这些社群逐渐知道了如何引导水流来加强土地的生产能力，铁犁的引入也终于使之前不受用于农业的重质土壤得以开垦种植。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL33 P1In the absence of these fires, trees reappeared on land not in cultivation and, if undisturbed, eventually formed woodlots.
没有了这些火树木又重新出现在土地上，这些树不是耕种而来，而且如果没有干预的话最终会长成林子。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL33 P2During the sixteenth century, farmers brought more land into cultivation at the expense of forests and fens (low-lying wetlands).
在16世纪，农民们以伐木开荒为代价，不断开垦耕地。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL10 P3After several years of cultivation and harvest, the site would be restored at a cost much lower than the price of excavation and reburial, the standard practice for remediation of contaminated soils.
经过几年的耕种和收割，该污染点将被修复，而其造价远比修复污染土壤的标准做法——挖掘和填埋来得低。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL5 P1n. 种植；栽培；培育
Are you familiar with the cultivation of fruits and vegetables?
你对水果和蔬菜的种植熟悉吗？
Methane forms in large concentration above wetlands, and as it turns out, the cultivation of certain grains creates vast areas of artificial wetlands, and probably drastically increases the amount of methane getting into the atmosphere, over and above what would be there.
甲烷在沼泽上大批形成，而且，随着谷物种植面积的扩大，一大批人造湿地被制造出来，大量增加了进入大气层的甲烷含量，超过了以往的应有的水平。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL20 L3This primitive form of "vegeculture" (cultivation of root and tree crops) may have been the economic tradition onto which the cultivation of summer rainfall cereal crops was grafted as it came into use south of the grassland areas on the Sahara's southern borders.
这种原始形式的“蔬菜栽培”（块根植物和树本作物的种植）可能已经成为了一种经济传统，基于这种传统，夏季降水谷类作物的种植也采用嫁接的办法，这种种植技术已经在撒哈拉沙漠南部边界地区的草原南部被使用。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL52 P3But because it doesn't grow naturally, without human cultivation, and because there's no obvious wild relative of maize, um, well, for the longest time researchers weren't able to find any clear link between maize and other living plants.
但是因为玉米不是自然长成的，必须要有人类的有意栽培，而且因为玉米并没有什么显而易见的野生的亲属，嗯，所以很长时间研究者都找不到任何玉米和其他植物的清楚联系。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL51 L2And since these bulbs remain viable for quite a long time, even out of the ground, they can be stored or transported long distances without much of a problem, which helps explain the spread of tulip cultivation.
因为这种球茎在很长时间都是可以开花的，即使没有被种在土里，它们也可以被储存或者运输很长距离，这些都没有什么问题。这就解释了郁金香种植的扩散。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL38 L2And in the layers from Kuk's third phase, they found evidence of an extensive network of ditches and drainage channels, indicating a further refinement of wetland cultivation.
在Kuk第三阶段的土层中，考古学家发现了四通八达的排水系统存在的证据，这表明湿地种植方法得到了进一步改良。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL44 L5British archaeologist Colin Renfrew attributed the dramatic flowering of the Minoan civilization on Crete and through the Aegean to intensified trading contacts and to the impact of olive and vine cultivation on local communities.
英国考古学家科林•伦福儒将克里特岛和爱琴海的米诺斯文明的蓬勃发展归因于更多的贸易接触和当地橄榄和葡萄栽培的影响。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL41 P3Much population movement involved the opening up of new lands for rice cultivation.
许多人口运动包含了为了粮食耕种开发新土地。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL32 P2The story of the westward movement of population in the United States is, in the main, the story of the expansion of American agriculture—of the development of new areas for the raising of livestock and the cultivation of wheat, corn, tobacco, and cotton.
美国西进运动的故事大体说来其实就是美国农业扩张的故事，也就是一场开辟用于饲养家畜以及种植小麦、玉米、烟草和棉花的新土地的运动。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL20 P1Methane forms in large concentration above wetlands, and as it turns out, the cultivation of certain grains creates vast areas of artificial wetlands, and probably drastically increases the amount of methane getting into the atmosphere, over and above what would be there.
甲烷在沼泽上大批形成，而且，随着谷物种植面积的扩大，一大批人造湿地被制造出来，大量增加了进入大气层的甲烷含量，超过了以往的应有的水平。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL20 L3The cultivation of crops has expanded into progressively drier regions as population densities have grown.
随着人口密度的增加，人们对粮食作物的种植已经扩展到日益干燥的区域。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL2 P1n. （尤指通过教育、培训等的）培养，形成
Individuals and society will benefit from the cultivation of independent self-esteem.
无论是个体还是社会都将受益于独立自尊心的培养。
n. 教养；文雅；（尤指社交）修养<正式>
n. （细菌、细胞等的）培养【生】
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