英语学习点: Gardening Vocabulary和园艺有关的词汇
Odd things are happening to Brits... we seem to be developing green fingers!
The number of people growing their own fruit andveg has almost doubled in the past year, according to Gardeners' World magazine.
Gardens and allotments across the UK have been put to use as people discover the joys of home-grown produce.
But not everyone has space for a vegetable patch or a flowerbed. And sometimes a window box just isn't enough of a gardening challenge.
That's why some people have been turning to guerrilla gardening. This is when people plant flowers or vegetables in public spaces to make them greener and more pleasing to the eye.
Many people would approve of prettifying towns and cities, but guerrilla gardening is not strictly legal. Therefore, this type of gardening often takes place in the dead of night.
But the stereotype of the keen gardener is not someone who wears combat boots and breaks the law. It is of someone who wears wellies and spends all their time in greenhouses and potting sheds. We expect such a person to know every aspect of how to tend and cultivate their plants.
Yet, despite the increase in people growing their own, more than half of the UK population still do not know when 18 out of the top 22 fruit and vegetables are in season, according to Gardeners' World.
It seems that Britain still has some way to go before we can justifiably be called a nation of gardeners.
- vocabulary [və´kæbjuləri, vəu-]
n.词汇；词汇量 (初中英语单词) - everyone [´evriwʌn] pron.=everybody 每人 (初中英语单词)
- vegetable [´vedʒtəbəl] a.&n.蔬菜(的)；植物 (初中英语单词)
- approve [ə´pru:v] v.赞成；同意；批准 (初中英语单词)
- therefore [´ðeəfɔ:] ad.&conj.因此；所以 (初中英语单词)
- aspect [´æspekt] n.面貌；神色；方向 (初中英语单词)
- cultivate [´kʌltiveit] vt.耕作；培植；培养 (初中英语单词)
- despite [di´spait] prep.尽管 (初中英语单词)
- pleasing [´pli:ziŋ] a.使人愉快的；合意的 (高中英语单词)
- strictly [´striktli] ad.严格地 (高中英语单词)
- gardener [´gɑ:dnə] n.园艺家；园林工人 (高中英语单词)
- combat [´kɔmbæt] v.&n.斗争；战斗；争斗 (高中英语单词)
- happening [´hæpəniŋ] n.事件，偶然发生的事 (英语四级单词)
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