manure

• vt.肥料を与える；耕す
• 肥料; 肥料

古フランス語のmanouvrer（耕す、操作する）から略され、語源的にはmanoeuvre（操作する、制御する）と同じ。その後、work the land（土地を耕す）、fertureise the land（土地を肥やす）から派生し、最終的には肥料そのものや堆肥を指すようになった。語源的にはpork、farrow、furrowと比較される。

manure

manure: see manoeuvre

manure (v.)

c. 1400, "to cultivate land," also "to hold property," from Anglo-French meynoverer, Old French manouvrer "to work with the hands, cultivate; carry out; make, produce," from Medieval Latin manuoperare (see maneuver (n.)). Sense of "work the earth" led to "put dung on the soil" (1590s) and to the current noun meaning "dung spread as fertilizer," which is first attested 1540s. Until late 18c., however, the verb still was used in a figurative sense of "to cultivate the mind, train the mental powers."

It is ... his own painfull study ... that manures and improves his ministeriall gifts. [Milton, 1641]

Related: Manured; manuring.

manure (n.)

"dung or compost used as fertilizer," 1540s, see manure (v.).

1. There isn 't time to dig deeply and put in manure or compost.

深掘りして糞肥や堆肥を施す時間がない.

2.A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.

緑肥作物の栽培は主に土壌をより肥沃にするためである。

3.If farm-yard manure is used it must be well rotted.

農場の肥料を使用する場合は、完全に腐敗させなければならない。

4.Pig-breeding not only improves the people 's diet ; it makes more manure available.

養豚は人民の生活を改善するだけでなく、肥料も多く蓄積することができる。

5.The farmers were distributing manure over the field.

農民たちが畑で肥料をやっている。