| 单词 | book-farmer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbook-farmer book-farmer n. freq. depreciative (now historical) a person who engages in farming with knowledge acquired chiefly from books, rather than through practical experience. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > inexperienced or book-farmer book-farmer1770 jackeroo1864 1770 C. Varlo New Syst. Husbandry I. v. 75 They scorn to be book farmers..shall a gentleman because he can write, pretend to instruct me what to do with my land. 1856 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 7 806 A notorious book farmer..succeeded in making one of the best farms in the State of New York. 1920 R. Frost Let. 21 Mar. (1964) 102 ‘Amatoor!’ all the leaves began to murmur. ‘Book-farmer!’ 2008 C. A. Elliott T. W. Harris iii. 103 Criticized and ignored by ordinary farmers who saw them as book-farmers detached from the day-to-day reality of agricultural activity..the agricultural societies turned away from their earlier efforts. < as lemmas |
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