单词 | cultivate one's own garden |
释义 | cultivate one's own gardenTo take care of one's own needs before trying to take care of others: “The mayor ought to cultivate his own garden before he starts telling the governor what to do.” This is the moral of Candide, by Voltaire: take care of your own, and the world will take care of itself. Words nearby cultivate one's own gardencultism, cultivable, cultivar, cultivate, cultivated, cultivate one's own garden, cultivation, cultivator, cult of personality, cultrate, cultural The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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