cultivation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 耕作， 培养，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Irish peasant became a landed proprietor, and though his little estate had only been under cultivation for two years, he had five hundred acres cleared by his own hands, and five hundred head of cattle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear madam,' returned Mrs. Micawber, with herbusinesslike air, 'I am free to confess, that I have not been activelyengaged in pursuits immediately connected with cultivation orwith stock, though well aware that both will claim my attention ona foreign shore.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her son, Mr Henry Gowan, inheriting from his father, the Commissioner, that very questionable help in life, a very small independence, had been difficult to settle; the rather, as public appointments chanced to be scarce, and his genius, during his earlier manhood, was of that exclusively agricultural character which applies itself to the cultivation of wild oats.
-- He nestled in the bosom of the tobacco business within a week or two after his first appearance in the College, and particularly addressed himself to the cultivation of a good understanding with Young John.
-- The execution of this trust occupied Mrs General about seven years, in the course of which time she made the tour of Europe, and saw most of that extensive miscellany of objects which it is essential that all persons of polite cultivation should see with other people's eyes, and never with their own.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo would turn up her naughty nose at some of the finest, because she has no soul for art, but I have, and I'm cultivation eye and taste as fast as I can.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the cold season should appear the most assiduous care was given to the cultivation of the wild plants which had been transplanted from the forest to Prospect Heights.
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