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You can picture crop as the 'top' or 'head' of a plant — the leafy, rounded part that swells up above the ground and that you cut to gather. From that one image of a plant's top come two directions: the plants themselves that farmers grow and gather (a crop, a harvest, by extension any batch that springs up at once), and the act of cutting that top off short — hair, trimming a photo's edges, an animal biting grass down low. A bird's crop (the rounded pouch in its throat) and a riding crop (a short stub of a stick) hang off the same old sense of a rounded, cut-short bump.

可以把 crop 想成植物的「頂端、頭部」——冒出地面、圓鼓鼓、可以割下來收成的那一截。從這個「植物頂端」的畫面長出…更多收起可以把 crop 想成植物的「頂端、頭部」——冒出地面、圓鼓鼓、可以割下來收成的那一截。從這個「植物頂端」的畫面長出兩個方向：一是農民種來收割的作物本身（一批作物、一季收成，再引申為同時冒出的一批東西），二是把這個頂端「剪短、削掉」的動作——剪短頭髮、裁掉照片邊緣、動物把草啃低。鳥的嗉囊（喉嚨裡圓鼓的小袋）和騎馬用的短鞭（一截短木棍），則都接到「圓鼓、被截短的小凸起」這個古老的意思上。

原始詞典資料24 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

cropnoun詞源 1/kɹɒp/

  • 1

    agriculturebusinesslifestyleA plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

    • The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?
  • 2

    The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.

    • It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!
  • 3

    A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.

    • The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
    • The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes.
  • 4

    A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.

    • The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
  • 5

    The lashing end of a whip.

  • 6

    An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.

  • 7

    A rocky outcrop.

  • 8

    The act of cropping.

另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.

    • This indicates to the engraver that the subject may be cropped to yield the size desired, but it is advisable that the position for the crop also be determined and marked, else some essential feature of the copy may be cut off by arbitrary cropping to get the required size.
  • 10

    A short haircut.

    • She went from a ponytail to a crop.
    • Eton crop
  • 11

    anatomymedicinesciencesA pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.

    • A little bird sat on the edge of her nest; Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops; That day she had done her very best, And had filled every one of their little crops.
    • The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.
  • 12

    architectureThe foliate part of a finial.

  • 13

    archaicdialectalThe head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

  • 14

    businessminingTin ore prepared for smelting.

  • 15

    businessminingAn outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

  • 16

    An entire oxhide.

  • 17

    slangMarijuana.

    • Cops, come and try to snatch my crops / These pigs wanna blow my house down

cropverb詞源 2/kɹɒp/

  • 1

    To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

    • I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
  • 2

    To mow, reap or gather.

  • 3

    To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

    • And the knave who refuses to drink till he fall, / Why the hangman shall crop him — ears, love-locks, and all.
  • 4

    To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.

    • Reduce to six inches wide and crop to eight inches high.
    • You'll see that when you enlarge a subject to many times its normal size, and then crop the photo so there is nothing in proportion to be recognized, all resemblance to the original can be hidden.
  • 5

    To yield harvest.

  • 6

    To cause to bear a crop.

    • to crop a field
  • 7

    To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.

    • She cropped the horse into a comfortable canter and enjoyed the familiar rhythm and bounce of the horse's stride.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。