agriculture

Definitions

agri- (field, from ager) + cult (tend, grow) + -ure (act) = 'the tending of fields.' It's the most transparent member of the family and the template for the whole X-culture series: keep -culture as 'tending/growing,' swap the first root for the thing being grown — horti- (garden), aqua- (water), api- (bees) — and you can read every one.

Common Collocations

• 1.modern agriculture现代农业
• 2.sustainable agriculture可持续农业
• 3.intensive agriculture集约农业
• 4.subsistence agriculture自给农业
• 5.depend on agriculture依赖农业

Example Sentences

• 1.

  Agriculture employs most of the population in rural regions.

• 2.

  New technology is transforming modern agriculture.

• 3.

  The country's economy still depends heavily on agriculture.