crop
noun/krɒp/
/krɑːp/
- [countable] a plant that is grown in large quantities, especially as food
庄稼；作物 - Sugar cane is an important crop on the island.
甘蔗是岛上的重要农作物。 - What are the benefits of growing GM crops?
种植转基因作物的好处是什么？ - food crops
粮食作物 - crop yield/production
农作物产量／生产 - to grow/plant/harvest crops
种植／收获农作物 - The crops are regularly sprayed with pesticides.
农作物定期喷洒杀虫剂。
Wordfinder- arable
- barn
- crop
- cultivate
- dairy
- fallow
- farm
- graze
- livestock
- tractor
Collocations FarmingFarmingGrowing food and raising animalssee also cash crop, catch crop- plant trees/seeds/crops/vines/barley
- grow/produce corn/wheat/rice/fruit
- plough/(North American English) plow land/a field
- sow/harvest seeds/crops/fields
- spread manure/fertilizer on something
- cultivate/irrigate/water/contaminate crops/plants/fields/land
- damage/destroy/lose your crop
- ripen/pick fruit/berries/grapes
- press/dry/ferment grapes
- grind/thresh grain/corn/wheat
- raise/rear/keep chickens/poultry/cattle/pigs
- raise/breed/feed/graze livestock/cattle/sheep
- kill/slaughter livestock
- preserve/smoke/cure/salt meat
- run a fish farm/an organic dairy farm
- engage in/be involved in intensive (pig/fish) farming
- use/apply (chemical/organic) fertilizer/insecticides/pesticides
- begin/do/conduct field trials of GM (= genetically modified) crops
- grow/develop GM crops/seeds/plants/foods
- fund/invest in genetic engineering/research
- improve/increase crop yields
- face/suffer from/alleviate food shortages
- label food that contains GMOs (= genetically modified organisms)
- eliminate/reduce farm subsidies
- oppose/be against factory farming/GM food
- promote/encourage/support organic/sustainable farming
Wordfinder- blight
- cereal
- crop
- genetically modified
- grain
- harvest
- monoculture
- organic
- staple
- yield
Extra ExamplesTopics Farmingb2- Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.
农作物轮作有助于防止土壤侵蚀。 - Crops are sprayed with highly toxic chemicals to prevent insect damage.
农作物喷上了毒性很大的化学药品以预防虫害。 - Fodder crops are used to feed livestock.
饲料作物是用来喂牲畜的。 - Isolated communities were extremely vulnerable if crops failed.
如果庄稼绝收，偏远的社区便会受到严重影响。 - It takes three to five years for a new plantation to bear a crop.
一个新的种植场需要 3 到 5 年的时间才有收成。 - Most of the farmers grow arable crops.
这些农民大多数种植庄稼。 - Rice is a staple crop for more than half of the world's population.
水稻是世界上超过半数人口食用的主要粮食作物。 - Rivers burst their banks and flooded standing crops.
河水冲破河岸，淹没了尚未收割的庄稼。 - Summer flash floods destroyed the crops.
夏天突发的洪水毁坏了庄稼。 - to boost crop yields
提高农作物产量
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- agricultural
- cash
- commercial
- …
- cultivate
- grow
- produce
- …
- grow
- fail
- rotation
- damage
- failure
- …
- crop of
- Sugar cane is an important crop on the island.
- [countable] the amount of grain, fruit, etc. that is grown in one season
（谷物、水果等一季的）收成，产量 - a fall in this year’s coffee crop
今年咖啡产量的下降 - Australia's wheat crop is likely to be lower than forecast this year.
澳大利亚今年的小麦产量可能低于预期。 - We are looking forward to a bumper crop (= a very large one).
我们期盼着大丰收。 - We had a very good crop of apples last year.
去年我们的苹果获得了大丰收。
Extra ExamplesTopics Farmingb2- a crop of carrots
一季产的胡萝卜 - a record crop was harvested
获得了一次创纪录的收成。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- abundant
- bumper
- excellent
- …
- get
- harvest
- have
- …
- crop of
- a fall in this year’s coffee crop
- [singular] a crop of something a group of people who do something at the same time; a number of things that happen at the same time
（同时做某事的）一群人，一批人；（同时发生的）一些事情 - the current crop of trainees
现在的这批实习生 - She is really the cream of the crop (= the best in her group).
她的确是那批人中的精英。 - a crop of disasters/injuries
一连串的灾难／伤害
- the current crop of trainees
- [countable] a short whip used by horse riders
（骑手的）短马鞭 - a riding crop
骑马用的短马鞭
- a riding crop
- [countable] a very short hairstyle
短发 - She has her hair cut in a short crop.
她剪了短发。
- She has her hair cut in a short crop.
- [singular] a crop of dark, fair, etc. hair/curls hair that is short and thick
短而密的头发 - He had a thick crop of black curly hair.
他有一头浓黑鬈曲的短发。
- He had a thick crop of black curly hair.
- (specialist) a part of a bird’s throat that has the shape of a bag where food is stored before it passes into the stomach
嗉囊 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- agricultural
- cash
- commercial
- …
- cultivate
- grow
- produce
- …
- grow
- fail
- rotation
- damage
- failure
- …
- crop of
plants for food
group of people
whip
hair
of bird
Word OriginOld English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th cent. there existed a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, giving rise to sense (1) and senses referring to the top of something.