People of gentle birth, good breeding, or high social position. 出身名门者出身高贵的人,有良好的教养或高层社会地位的人
Suited to one of good breeding; refined and polite. 有教养的,有礼的与良好教养相称的;优雅的,礼貌的
Birth is much, but breeding is more. 出身重要,教养更重要。
breeding
[ noun ]
elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
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the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
<noun.attribute> a woman of breeding and refinement
helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
<noun.act> they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
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the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
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producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring
<adj.all> the breeding population retained a few bulls for breeding purposes
Breed \Breed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Breeding}.] [OE. breden, AS. br[=e]dan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from br[=o]d brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. br["u]ten. See {Brood}.] 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. --Shak.
If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. --Shak.
2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. --Dryden.
Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. --Everett.
3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. --Bp. Burnet.
His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. --Locke.
4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. --Milton.
5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
6. To raise, as any kind of stock.
7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.]
Children would breed their teeth with less danger. --Locke.
Breeding \Breed"ing\, n. 1. The act or process of generating or bearing.
2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
3. Nurture; education; formation of manners.
She had her breeding at my father's charge. --Shak.
4. Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.
Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. --Hume.
5. Descent; pedigree; extraction. [Obs.]
Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. --Shak.
{Close breeding}, {In and in breeding}, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage.
{Cross breeding}, breeding from a male and female of different lineage.
{Good breeding}, politeness; genteel deportment.
Syn: Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See {Education}.
But the most important task at the arboretum may be breeding new plants.
In real life, it's a breeding ranch in Forney, 20 miles east of Dallas.
The Agriculture Department said the breeding herd in the 10 largest hog-producing states on Sept. 1 was 9% larger than a year earlier.
The pond became a breeding ground of disease amid an extended heat wave that summer.
In 1987, she published "The Beaverbrook Girl," a lively volume of memoirs about her active and adventurous life, which included horse breeding and flying helicopters.
More than 60,000 people have tickets to see Chia Chia, the giant male panda who goes on display today at the zoo, during his three-month stay in a 5,000-mile journey to a breeding program in Mexico.
On June 1, the number of hogs kept for breeding was 3 percent below a year ago, while market hogs _ those destined for slaughter _ were down only 1 percent.
Eradication of "flooded forests" adjacent Cambodia's Tonle Sap lake has wiped out many fish breeding grounds and, in part, accounts for the dramatic drop in catch in recent years.
The bees started breeding with local bees of European origin, creating the Africanized, or "killer" bee.
He invented many of the moves and terms now used in freestyle competition, apparently benefiting from good breeding: His mother is a ballet instructor who trained with the Joffrey Ballet and helped him with his spin move.
Africanized bees are hybrid descendants of bees that escaped a breeding experiment in Brazil in 1957.
Many farmers began to cull their breeding stock by selling cows for slaughter.
Greenpeace alleges the strip will open up the area for mining operations, destroying the natural habitat and breeding ground of the Emperor and Adelie penguins.
After sinking $300,000 into breeding the cattle, he sold out to a partner for $6,500 and went into the real estate business.
For example, if the bees are inclined to mate in certain areas of a flyway, commercial beekeepers could move their breeding grounds elsewhere.
It protects animals by breeding them in captivity and returning their offspring to the wild.
The Agriculture Department says a "historic agreement to import Chinese breeding swine" has been reached and that the pact may help upgrade the U.S. pork industry.
IRRI wants to raise the maximum to 15 tonnes by 2010. The institute has made great strides in breeding rice varieties that are resistant to salinity, insect pests and other adverse conditions.
He is to stay in Cincinnati until the end of November before moving to his new home at Mexico City's Chapultepec Zoo, where it is hoped Chia Chia will take part in a successful breeding program.
In contrast, individual male mice left alone in a cage with a female for breeding developed diabetes at about half that rate, Leiter said.
Grace, a chemicals and energy concern, said the method has potential commercial applications including breeding "genetically superior" dairy cow herds.
In a horse-breeding operation, for example, Mr. Josephs says an owner must be able to demonstrate that he or she hired and supervised the staff and made decisions on the purchase, breeding and sale of the horses.
All of which, in Mr. Phillips's estimation, is breeding today a "populist rebellion" against "gunslinger capitalism" reminiscent of the supposed public backlash against the Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties.
Thomas said there currently are about 1,700 breeding pairs of owls in the Northwest.
The Pig Improvement Company (PIC), the world's leading supplier of breeding pigs, has used jumbo jets to send stock out to China and the US, among other destinations.
Srinagar has 150 mosques. "This is the best breeding ground for Moslem fundamentalism," said a federal official who helps coordinate the new security measures.
It began by transforming the 350-square-foot indoor pen that housed its one elephant, Siri, into a spacious 3,200-square-foot indoor-outdoor living area with a breeding barn.
For $15,000 Bordelon will sell you a third interest in a breeding pair.
Environmentalists say that if tourist facilities are allowed on the breeding beaches, the baby turtles can be lured by the lights from hotels or camp fires, go the wrong way and perish.
He led a solitary existence at a New Hampshire attraction until he was purchased by The Zoo in this Florida Panhandle city three months before Muke's arrival on breeding loan from the St. Louis Zoo.