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

• He's got fields of the stuff down on his farm, but as a cash crop there was one big problem: it didn't generate much cash.
  虽然他的农场片片地种着这东西，但作为一种商品作物，它的一缺陷就是创收有限。
• Cotton, the major cash crop in China, is playing a crucial role in national economic development.
  棉花作为我国主要的经济作物，在国民经济发展中占有举足轻重的地位。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• Tobacco is one of important cash crop in China.
  烤烟是我国重要的经济作物。
• The cash crop that has a huge demand the world over and with easy going farming methods of Bt cotton had persuaded many farmers to engage in its cultivation, thereby, earning them a handsome income.
  现金作物在世界上拥有巨大的需求，由于Bt棉花的随和的耕作方式，所以说服了很多农民从事该植物的种植，从而赢得了很理想的收入。
• I see. What is the main cash crop?
  我明白了。那主要的收入来源是什么呢？
• The cash dividends they get from the cash crop would sustain them during the lean season
  从经济作物中获得的收益能帮助他们度过不景气的时期。
• Cotton is Uganda's second leading cash crop after coffee.
  棉花是乌干达仅次于咖啡的创收型经济作物。