核心畫面

You can picture husbandry as someone standing in charge of things that are alive or in short supply, and looking after them on purpose, day after day: the field, the animals, the store . The word never points at the thing owned. It points at the looking-after — the routine, the method, the not-wasting. That is why it can be judged good or poor, and why it fits a farm, a vet's clinic and an old household account book equally well.

husbandry 可以想成一個人站在他要照管的東西前面:田、牲口、倉庫裡的存糧。他不是偶爾看一下,而是每天照著一套更多收起husbandry 可以想成一個人站在他要照管的東西前面:田、牲口、倉庫裡的存糧。他不是偶爾看一下,而是每天照著一套方法在顧。這個字指的不是那些東西本身,而是那份照管——那套做法、那份不浪費。所以它前面常接 good 或 poor,因為照管是可以被評價的。也因為這樣,同一個字可以放在農場、獸醫診所,也可以放在一本老帳簿上。

From the word’s history

Middle English husbandry came from hous-bond, the master or manager of a household. The oldest uses already cover both household management and farming, which is why one word still stretches from the field to the account book.

中古英文的 husbandry 來自 hous-bond,指「一家之主、管家的人」。最早的用法就同時包含「管家務」和「務農」兩塊。所以今天它一邊落在田裡,一邊落在帳本上,並不是後來硬接上去的。

Wiktionary entry supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1134313647): Middle English hus-bondrie, from hous-bond, household manager; senses listed include household management, thrift, farm management, agriculture.

Two branches

田裡與牲口

照管的對象是會長大的東西:作物和牲畜。這是這個字最常見、也最先該記住的落點。

noun · C1

The work of farming: growing crops and keeping farm animals, together with the methods a farmer uses to do that work.

農牧;耕作

把錢和物資管好

照管的對象換成會用完的東西:錢、糧食、補給。看顧的動作沒變,只是怕的不是牲口生病,而是東西提早用光。

noun · C2

Careful, saving use of money, food or supplies, so that little is wasted and there is still something left later.

節儉持家