核心畫面

Picture a piece of ground that somebody has been working on for years. It has been turned over, planted, weeded and watered, season after season. Nothing here happened by itself; every row is the result of slow, repeated care. Stand back and you can see it at a glance — this ground looks different from the beside it. Cultivated always points at that difference: a thing that has had human hands on it for a long time, and shows it.

可以想成一塊被人整理了很多年的地。翻過土、種過、除過草、澆過水,一季又一季。這裡沒有一樣東西是自己長成這樣的,每一排更多收起可以想成一塊被人整理了很多年的地。翻過土、種過、除過草、澆過水,一季又一季。這裡沒有一樣東西是自己長成這樣的,每一排都是慢慢照顧出來的。而且遠遠一看就看得出來——這塊地跟旁邊的山坡不一樣。cultivated 指的一直是這個差別:某樣東西被人的手長期照顧過,而且看得出來。地是這樣,地上的作物是這樣,一個人也可以被這樣形容。

Two branches

被人的手照顧過的地與作物

最貼近畫面的一家:講的就是農地本身,還有農地上長出來的東西。差別只在鏡頭對準哪裡——土,還是土上長的。

adjective · B2

Cultivated land has been dug, planted and looked after by people so that crops or other plants can grow on it, instead of being left as it was.

耕種過的

被養出來的人

把同一個畫面放到人身上。這是一種看待方式,不是說這個意思在歷史上比另一個晚出現——只是用「長期照顧才長得好」來理解它,特別好記。

adjective · C1

A cultivated person has read, listened and learned a great deal, especially about art, music, books and ideas, and it shows in the way they talk and behave.

有教養的

原始詞典資料4 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。

cultivatedadj/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/

  • 1

    Of a person, cultured, refined, educated.

    • Attractive, cultivated GWM seeks to share love of music, literature, good times with same.
  • 2

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesOf a plant, grown by cultivation (not wild).

  • 3

    agriculturebusinesslifestyleOf land, farmed.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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