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- an area of land and its buildings used for growing crops and rearing animals, typically under the control of one owner or manager农场; 牧场; 饲养场。
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- the main dwelling place on such a site; a farmhouse农场住宅区; 农舍：
a half-timbered farm.
一座露明木架的农舍。
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- with modifier a place for breeding a particular type of animal or producing a specified crop养殖场; 种植场：
a fish farm.
养鱼场。
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- with modifier an establishment at which something is produced or processed生产（或加工）企业：
an energy farm.
能源企业。
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- no obj. make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock经营农场（或牧场等）; 种田, 务农：
he has farmed organically for five years.
他用有机肥料栽培作物已有五年了。
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- with obj. use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals, especially commercially在（土地）上经营农场（或牧场等）。
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- with obj. breed or grow commercially (a type of livestock or crop, especially one not normally domesticated or cultivated)商业化养殖（牲畜, 尤指非驯养的动物）; 商业化种植（作物, 尤指非培育的作物）。
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- with obj.
farm someone/thing out
send out or subcontract work to others将…外包（或分包）： it saves time and money to farm out some writing work to specialized companies.
将一些文字工作外包给专门公司去做既省时, 又省钱。
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- arrange for a child to be looked after by someone, usually for payment把（孩子）寄养出去。
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- dated send a sports player temporarily to another team in return for a fee〈旧〉（暂时）转让; 外租（运动员）。
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- with obj. historical allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee〈史〉（收取一定费用）将（税收）包出：
the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum.
在收取一笔固定款项后, 关税已包给收税员征收。
派生词
farmable
adjective词源
Middle English: from Old French ferme, from medieval Latin firma 'fixed payment', from Latin firmare 'fix, settle' （in medieval Latin 'contract for'）, from firmus 'constant, firm'; compare with FIRM2 . The noun originally denoted a fixed annual amount payable as rent or tax; this is reflected in sense 3 of the verb, which later gave rise to 'to subcontract' (sense 2). The noun came to denote a lease, and, in the early 16th cent., land leased specifically for farming. The verb sense 'grow crops or keep livestock' dates from the early 19th cent.