cash crop

英 [ˈkæʃ krɒp]

美 [ˈkæʃ krɑːp]

n.  商品作物; 经济作物

经济

牛津词典

noun

• 商品作物；经济作物
  a crop grown for selling, rather than for use by the person who grows it

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 经济作物
  Acash cropis a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
  1. Cranberries have become a major cash crop.
     越橘已经成了主要经济作物。

英英释义

noun

• a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)

双语例句

• The peasants have discovered that potatoes are a lucrative cash crop, so they no longer live semi-nomadic lives and are building new homes with roofs of steel not wooden shingles.
  农民发现种植土豆是利润丰厚的经济作物后，放弃了昔日的半游牧生活，转而盖起铁皮屋顶的新居（而不是传统的木瓦）。
• I guess you could say it's the ultimate cash crop.
  我想你可以把它称为最赚钱的作物。
• I heard it was the ultimate cash crop.
  我听说是最终赚钱作物。
• Cash crop is a crop, such as tobacco, grown for direct sale rather than for livestock feed.
  经济作物为直接出售而非作为家畜饲料而种植的庄稼，如烟草。
• These large-scale estates not only planted corns, but also cultivated cash crop and bred herds. Therefore, this profitable economy began to be an object of pursuit for the upper class.
  这种大规模的土地经营不仅表现在谷物种植方面，也包括经济作物的种植和大范围的牲畜饲养，而有利可图的经营方式开始成为上层社会逐利的目标。
• Yet the forests surrounding the national park are swiftly being converted to roads, cash crop plantations and other development projects.
  然而，这个国家公园周围的森林被迅速地变成了道路、商品作物种植园和其他发展项目。
• Varied foods and food materials have been developed from PSP both at home and abroad. Therefore, PSP can be recommended as a superior cash crop for the production of foods of health benefits.
  目前国内外已针对紫甘薯开发出一系列食品及食品工业原料，其生产及应用受到越来越多的关注，是一种很有发展前景的经济作物。
• Strawberry is an important cash crop, but strawberry diseases each year will cause varying degrees of loss.
  草莓是我国重要的经济作物，但每年因草莓病害都会造成不同程度的损失。
• Tobacco brings considerable economic effect to our country as an important cash crop of our country every year.
  烟草是我国重要的经济作物，每年为我国带来可观的经济效益。
• Rapeseed is the very important cash crop in China and Canada.
  油菜在中国和加拿大都是非常重要的经济作物。