| 单词 | book-farming |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbook-farming book-farming n. freq. depreciative (now historical) the practice of farming with knowledge acquired chiefly from books, rather than through practical experience. ΚΠ 1794 T. Wedge Gen. View Agric. Chester 73 His prejudices are strengthened, and he sneers at what he contemptuously calls book-farming. 1823 R. B. Thomas Farmer's Almanack 1824 18–24 Dec. Be not stubborn and unreasonable in your prejudices against what is called book-farming. 1860 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 10 537 Another man..summarily pronounces all book farming a humbug. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Stud. Classic Amer. Lit. viii. 154 And that's why the idealists left off brook-farming, and took to book-farming. 2008 W. Allen War on Bugs x. 77/1 They ridiculed the book-farming experts who promoted arsenic for use on food. < as lemmas |
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