farming

noun

1. 务农；农场经营
   the business of managing or working on a farm
   1. to take up farming
      从事农业
   2. sheep/fish, etc. farming
      牧羊、养鱼等
   3. organic farming
      有机耕作
   4. modern farming methods
      现代耕作方法
   5. a farming community
      农业社区

1. 耕种;养殖
   Farming is the activity of growing crops or keeping animals on a farm.

1. The government most assuredly does believe in organic farming.
   政府确实坚信有机耕作切实可行。
2. He had a bad accident two years ago and had to give up farming
   他两年前遇到严重的车祸，不得不放弃务农。
3. He's got a bee in his bonnet about factory farming.
   他满脑子都是工厂化养殖的事儿。
4. The Ministry of Agriculture commissioned a study into low-input farming
   农业部委托对低投入耕作进行研究。
5. The group can't get credit to buy farming machinery
   这些人无法赊购到农用机械。
6. The move is consistent with a trend for corporate legal staffs to do more work in-house, instead of farming it out to law firms
   这一举措符合让公司的法律专员在单位内部做更多的工作，而不是将工作分包给律师事务所的趋势。
7. We can take advantage of new technology more quickly by farming out computer operations
   把计算机业务分包出去，我们就可以更快地利用新技术。
8. You don't know the first thing about farming.
   你对种地一窍不通。
9. At first glance, organic farming looks much more expensive for the farmer.
   乍一看，有机耕作对农民而言似乎花费大多了。
10. Farming can be very much a hit-and-miss affair.
    务农可能是件非常碰运气的事。
11. Elsewhere large areas have been drained and levelled for industry or intensive farming.
    在别处，大片区域被抽干了水或铲平了地，以作为工业或集约化农业用地。
12. Yorkshire is still very much a farming community with good meat, good dairy produce and eggs
    约克郡在很大程度上仍以农业为主，出产优质肉类、奶制品和蛋类。
13. Organic farming is expanding everywhere.
    有机农业正在各地迅速发展起来。
14. The main industry on the outlying islands is farming.
    这些偏远岛屿的主要产业为农业。
15. The results prove that regulation of the salmon farming industry is inadequate.
    结果证明对鲑鱼饲养行业的管理不够完善。
16. A serious car accident in 1986 ruled out a permanent future for him in farming.
    1986年一场严重的车祸让他永远不可能再务农了。
17. Grass fires have seared the land near the farming village of Basekhai.
    草地野火烧焦了巴斯克亥农庄附近的土地。
18. Traditional slash and burn farming methods have exhausted the soil.
    传统的刀耕火种农业方式耗尽了土地的肥力。
19. The policy has not spared the farming community from severe financial pressure.
    这项政策并没有使农村社会逃脱沉重的经济压力。
20. He left a job in the City to take up farming
    他辞去伦敦商业区的工作，开始务农。
21. They cleared large tracts of forest for farming, logging and ranching.
    他们清除了大片的森林以经营农耕、采伐与畜牧。
22. He's no amateur in farming.
    种庄稼他可不外行。
23. There are bright prospects for freshwater fish farming.
    淡水养鱼大有可为。
24. He lives by farming.
    他靠务农过活。
25. At this speed, we expect our county's farming to be mechanized within two years.
    按现在的速度，可以推想两年内我们县就能实现农业机械化了。
26. The construction, real estate and farming, as well as other sectors, are teetering.
    同其他部门一样，建筑、房地产和农业也摇摇欲坠。
27. Most farming is seasonal.
    大凡农活都有时间性。
28. This method of farming saves a lot of labour.
    这种耕作方法省力不少。
29. The new law does not refer to land used for farming.
    那条新法律并不涉及耕种用地。

  agriculture farming husbandry【导航词义：农业】

  agriculture n. 农业

〔辨析〕普通用词，包括农业生产的方方面面，如耕作、种植、收获等，同时也包括家畜、家禽的养殖等。

  farming n. 耕种；农场业

〔辨析〕着重指为市场生产粮食和经济作物而进行的耕作，也表示对农场的经营管理等。

  husbandry n. 农业；农牧业；饲养业

〔辨析〕强调自给自足，或向小范围提供农产品，而不是供应较大的市场，也指对多种经营（如养蜂、养鸡等）的管理。

noun

1. agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
   1. farming is a strenuous life
   2. there's no work on the land any more

   Synonym:    land

2. the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

   Synonym:    agriculturehusbandry