manure

英 [mə'njʊə]美 [mə'nʊr]
  • vt. 施肥于；耕种
  • n. 肥料；粪肥
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粪 manure 马牛屙-----什么马呀、牛啊等牲畜屙出来、拉出来的东西。
2. denoting 'dung spread in cultivating the land'.
3. which at first was used for 'administer land', and more specifically 'cultivate land'.
4. manoeuvre => manure.

中文词源

manure 粪肥，肥料

缩写自古法语manouvrer,耕作，操作，词源同manoeuvre,操作，控制。后引申词义在土地上劳作，给土地施肥，最后用于指肥料本身及粪肥。词源演变比较pork,farrow,furrow.

英文词源

manure
manure: see manoeuvre
manure (v.)
c. 1400, "to cultivate land," also "to hold property," from Anglo-French meynoverer, Old French manouvrer "to work with the hands, cultivate; carry out; make, produce," from Medieval Latin manuoperare (see maneuver (n.)). Sense of "work the earth" led to "put dung on the soil" (1590s) and to the current noun meaning "dung spread as fertilizer," which is first attested 1540s. Until late 18c., however, the verb still was used in a figurative sense of "to cultivate the mind, train the mental powers."
It is ... his own painfull study ... that manures and improves his ministeriall gifts. [Milton, 1641]
Related: Manured; manuring.
manure (n.)
"dung or compost used as fertilizer," 1540s, see manure (v.).

双语例句

1. There isn't time to dig deeply and put in manure or compost.
没有时间来深挖然后施以粪肥或堆肥.
来自柯林斯例句
2. A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
种植绿肥作物主要是为使土壤更加肥沃.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. If farm - yard manure is used it must be well rotted.
如果使用农场的粪肥,必须让它完全腐烂.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Pig - breeding not only improves the people's diet; it makes more manure available.
养猪不独可以改善人民生活, 还能多积肥料.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5. The farmers were distributing manure over the field.
农民们正在田间施肥.
来自《简明英汉词典》