agriculture是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 农业， 农艺， 农耕，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In these colleges the professors con-trive new rules and methods of agriculture and building, and new instruments, and tools for all trades and manu-factures; whereby, as they undertake, one man shall do the work of ten; a palace may be built in a week, of materials so durable as to last for ever without repairing.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of today are still in the rudimentary stage.
-- Our agriculture and horticulture destroy a weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He considered human life only tolerable abroad, and went abroad to stay at every opportunity, and at the same time he carried on a complex and improved system of agriculture in Russia, and with extreme interest followed everything and knew everything that was being done in Russia.
-- In both cases the conditions of agriculture are firmly established; but among us now, when everything has been turned upside down and is only just taking shape, the question what form these conditions will take is the one question of importance in Russia," thought Levin.
-- And progress in agriculture more than anything else--the potato, for instance, that was introduced among us by force.
-- "I don't believe it," Sviazhsky replied quite seriously; "all I see is that we don't know how to cultivate the land, and that our system of agriculture in the serf days was by no means too high, but too low.
-- "I don't agree that it's necessary or possible to raise the level of agriculture still higher," said Levin.
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