1610s, "relating to the land," from Middle French loy agrarienne "agrarian law," corresponding to Latin Lex agraria, the Roman law for the division of conquered lands, from agrarius "of the land," from ager (genitive agri) "a field," from PIE *agro- (cognates: Greek agros "field," Gothic akrs, Old English ?cer "field;" see acre). Meaning "having to do with cultivated land" first recorded 1792.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. People are leaving an agrarian way of life to go to the city.
人們正在放棄農(nóng)業(yè)生活方式而轉(zhuǎn)向城市.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
2. The centre of the U.S. economy shifted from the agrarian areas to the industrial centres in the north.