| 单词 | cultivated |
| 释义 | cultivated (once / 291 pages) 1adj 2adj The adjective cultivated is used to describe someone who is polite and civilized. The cultivated people at the party would be very offended by crude behavior. Someone who's cultivated is knowledgeable or at least familiar with the arts, current events, history. He or she probably has traveled widely, or at least has read about other people and places. In other words, a cultivated person is a citizen of the world. As it applies to farming, cultivated soil is tilled, or churned, to prepare it for planting. WORD FAMILYcultivated: uncultivated+/cultivable: uncultivable/cultivatable: uncultivatable/cultivate: cultivable, cultivatable, cultivated, cultivates, cultivating, cultivation, cultivator, overcultivate/cultivation: cultivations, self-cultivation/cultivator: cultivators/overcultivate: overcultivated USAGE EXAMPLESAs chief minister of Gujarat, one of India’s wealthier states, Modi cultivated a reputation as a master administrator. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) No meticulously planned stealth release, with its carefully cultivated air of surprise and concealed impact date, was as surprising as David Bowie or Prince’s death. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) The blank industrial lawns cultivated by neighbors are nearly devoid of birds, he noted. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1adj no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use cultivated roses cultivated blackberries Syn tame, tamed brought from wildness into a domesticated state 2adj (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing 2cultivated land Ant uncultivated (of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops uncultivable, uncultivatablenot suitable for cultivation or tilling adj marked by refinement in taste and manners cultivated speech Syn civilised, civilized, cultured, genteel, polite refined (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel |
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