| 单词 | high culture |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh culture high culture n. (a) a form of land cultivation making extensive use of soil improvement; = high farming n. (now historical); (b) highly refined artistic or intellectual achievement; the manifestation of this in art, music, literature, etc.; the appreciation of this, cultural sophistication. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > types of farming high culture1771 scientific farming1789 metaying1792 high farming1815 petite culture1848 sharefarming1857 urban agriculture1860 bush-farming1866 mixed farming1872 dry farming1878 co-aration1883 co-ploughing1883 smallholding1889 power-farming1913 dry-land farming1914 third(s)-and-fourth(s)1940 link system1950 green revolution1968 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > extensive use of fertilizers high culture1771 high farming1815 1771 Monthly Rev. Apr. 308 Although in common management a gravelly loam is superior to a clayey, yet not in high culture, as the profit per acre on the latter exceeds the former. 1803 Ann. Agric. 40 239 High culture will be found not only to change the quality of the grass, from bad to good, but will also increase the quantity. a1812 J. S. Buckminster Serm. (1814) xxiii. 401 With this high culture of the female imagination, and this invisible influence and authority in criticism, France had also produced the best female instructers of the world. 1818 tr. J. von Müller Univ. Hist. I. i. 21 Persia..a region of high culture from the earliest age, where traces of the pure religion of Zerdusht, which he brought among the nations from Mount Albordi, may still be recognized. 1849 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 20 Sept. (1954) I. 308 She is a person of high culture according to the ordinary notions of what feminine culture should be. 1908 Manch. Guardian 2 Dec. 13/5 Other means of inducing crops to grow combine with high culture—i.e., good tillage and manuring—to form the intensive system. 1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War p. viii The only part of our society in which there was leisure for high culture. 2007 P. J. Pauly Fruits & Plains 6 For them [sc. horticulturists], high culture meant..well-rotted manure and hand weeding. 2007 Daily Tel. 17 Oct. 20/2 They should have been groomed for academia... They needed lessons in articulacy, high culture and a sense of the wider world. < as lemmas |
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