cultivate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 耕作, 养植, 栽培; 培养, 陶冶, 发展，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：
-- "First the larder of Kara-Tete and then fire out of the ground!Upon my word, this mountain is a paradise!I propose that we found a colony, and cultivate the soil and settle here for life!We shall be the Robinsons of Maunganamu.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His first act was to establish himself as near to his ancestral home as he could, and his second was to cultivate a friendship with Sir Charles Baskerville and with the neighbours.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Introduce him to me, and I'll cultivate his acquaintance.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "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.
-- He thought that the Russian people whose task it was to colonize and cultivate vast tracts of unoccupied land, consciously adhered, till all their land was occupied, to the methods suitable to their purpose, and that their methods were by no means so bad as was generally supposed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There he saw dazzling camellias expanding themselves, with flowers which were giving forth their last colours and perfumes, not on bushes, but on trees, and within bamboo enclosures, cherry, plum, and apple trees, which the Japanese cultivate rather for their blossoms than their fruit, and which queerly-fashioned, grinning scarecrows protected from the sparrows, pigeons, ravens, and other voracious birds.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You owe it to the grand old flag to cultivate yourself, To train the mind, keep clean the streets, and ever guard your health.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My friend's appearance suggested that he was now in the same predicament, and I prepared myself to cultivate an agreeable acquaintance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without expecting game, some useful plant might be met with, and the young naturalist was delighted with discovering a sort of wild spinach, belonging to the order of chenopodiaceae, and numerous specimens of cruciferae, belonging to the cabbage tribe, which it would certainly be possible to cultivate by transplanting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All manner of incidents combined in favour of the occasion: not only had Mr and Mrs Garland forewarned him that they intended to make no deduction for his outfit from the great amount, but to pay it him unbroken in all its gigantic grandeur; not only had the unknown gentleman increased the stock by the sum of five shillings, which was a perfect god-send and in itself a fortune; not only had these things come to pass which nobody could have calculated upon, or in their wildest dreams have hoped; but it was Barbara's quarter too Barbara's quarter, that very day and Barbara had a half-holiday as well as Kit, and Barbara's mother was going to make one of the party, and to take tea with Kit's mother, and cultivate her acquaintance.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the impetuosity of his adventurous southern temper, he did all he could to cultivate an acquaintance with this lovely countess, making the best of his opportunities in the quadrille and during a waltz that she gave him.
-- I can manage to exist on bread and water, or go without food, if need be, but I cannot do without the tools with which they cultivate the vineyards in this country.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Really, it took a lot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took all possible methods to cultivate this favourable disposition.
-- The cottagers and labourers keep their children at home, their business being only to till and cultivate the earth, and therefore their education is of little consequence to the pub-lic: but the old and diseased among them, are supported by hospitals; for begging is a trade unknown in this empire.
-- 159He asked, 'What methods were used to cultivate the minds and bodies of our young nobility, and in what kind of busi-ness they commonly spent the first and teachable parts of their lives?
-- As these noble Houyhnhnms are endowed by nature with a general disposition to all virtues, and have no con-ceptions or ideas of what is evil in a rational creature, so their grand maxim is, to cultivate reason, and to be whol-ly governed by it.
-- He took notice of a general tradition, 'that Yahoos had not been always in their country; but that many 346 Gulliver's Travelsages ago, two of these brutes appeared together upon a mountain; whether produced by the heat of the sun upon corrupted mud and slime, or from the ooze and froth of the sea, was never known; that these Yahoos engendered, and their brood, in a short time, grew so numerous as to overrun and infest the whole nation; that the Houyhnhnms, to get rid of this evil, made a general hunting, and at last enclosed the whole herd; and destroying the elder, every Houyhnhnm kept two young ones in a kennel, and brought them to such a degree of tameness, as an animal, so savage by nature, can be capable of acquiring, using them for draught and carriage; that there seemed to be much truth in this tradition, and that those creatures could not be yinhniam-shy (or aborigines of the land), because of the violent hatred the Houyhnhnms, as well as all other animals, bore them, which, although their evil disposition sufficiently deserved, could never have arrived at so high a degree if they had been aborigines, or else they would have long since been rooted out; that the inhabitants, taking a fancy to use the service of the Yahoos, had, very imprudently, neglected to cultivate the breed of asses, which are a comely animal, easily kept, more tame and orderly, without any offensive smell, strong enough for labour, although they yield to the other in agil-ity of body, and if their braying be no agreeable sound, it is far preferable to the horrible howlings of the Yahoos.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cultivate in them, while there is yet time, the utmost graces of the fancies and affections, to adorn their lives so much in need of ornament; or, in the day of your triumph, when romance is utterly driven out of their souls, and they and a bare existence stand face to face, Reality will take a wolfish turn, and make an end of you.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Believ-ing that they could not begin too early to cultivate energy, industry, and independence, their parents consented, and both fell to work with the hearty good will which in spite of all obstacles is sure to succeed at last.
-- You don't care to make people like you, to go into good society, and cultivate your manners and tastes.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No: the reason was this: that from the fatal experiences of the fishery there hung a terrible prestige of perilousness about such a whale as there did about Rinaldo Rinaldini, insomuch that most fishermen were content to recognise him by merely touching their tarpaulins when he would be discovered lounging by them on the sea, without seeking to cultivate a more intimate acquaintance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under this impression, he secretly resolved to cultivate the good opinion of the old gentleman as quickly as possible; and, if he found the Dodger incorrigible, as he more than half suspected he should, to decline the honour of his farther acquaintance.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The case was thus: he had been with us now about a month, during which time I had let him see in what manner I had provided, with the assistance of Providence, for my support; and he saw evidently what stock of corn and rice I had laid up; which, though it was more than sufficient for myself, yet it was not sufficient, without good husbandry, for my family, now it was increased to four; but much less would it be sufficient if his countrymen, who were, as he said, sixteen, still alive, should come over; and least of all would it be sufficient to victual our vessel, if we should build one, for a voyage to any of the Christian colonies of America; so he told me he thought it would be more advisable to let him and the other two dig and cultivate some more land, as much as I could spare seed to sow, and that we should wait another harvest, that we might have a supply of corn for his countrymen, when they should come; for want might be a temptation to them to disagree, or not to think themselves delivered, oth-erwise than out of one difficulty into another.
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