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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have a vast property there, which I cultivate myself, and which is always sown by the hand of the Creator of all things."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He condescended to play with the children, as they grew old enough to cultivate his friendship, and would run up and down the little paddock with them like a dog; but though he relaxed so far, and allowed them such small freedoms as caresses, or even to look at his shoes or hang on by his tail, he never permitted any one among them to mount his back or drive him; thus showing that even their familiarity must have its limits, and that there were points between them far too serious for trifling.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The selling of land should be prohibited; only those that cultivate it themselves should be allowed to own it," said the oven-builder, angrily interrupting the soldier.
-- "If there is an unoccupied section, take and cultivate it," said Nekhludoff.
-- One cannot rent it from them; they cultivate it themselves.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
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