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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

培育 [péiyù]
  1. 1. verb [培植养育] cultivate
    培育幼苗
    cultivate seedlings
  2. 2. verb [培养教育] nurture

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

培育 [péiyù]
  1. 1. help (young plants) grow by labour and care; cultivate; breed
    金鱼品种的丰富多样是长期人工培育的结果。
    培育树苗
    grow saplings
    培育小麦新品种
    breed new varieties of wheat
  2. 2. nurture and educate; bring up; rear
    我国十分重视师资力量的培育
    孩子们在父母和老师的培育下健康成长。
    Nurtured and educated by their parents and teachers, the children are growing up healthy and strong.

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

培育 [péiyù]
  1. 1. 对幼小生物进行培养,使发育成长
    培育优良品种。
  2. 2. 培养教育
    培育一代新人。

Examples

培育小麦新品种
breed new varieties of wheat 培育
培育树苗
grow saplings 培育
孩子们在父母和老师的培育下健康成长。
Nurtured and educated by their parents and teachers, the children are growing up healthy and strong. 培育
金鱼品种的丰富多样是长期人工培育的结果。 培育
我国十分重视师资力量的培育 培育
他们培育出了一颗特大灵芝王。 特大
培育这种花卉需要每隔三天壅土一次。
People should heap soil over and around the roots of this flower every three days. 壅土
看着他培育的新品种茁长, 他心里有说不出的高兴。
He feels indescribably happy looking at the new thriving species he cultivated himself. 茁长
农学院的教授正在精心培育特种蔬菜, 就快成功了。 特种蔬菜
无籽西瓜是用无性生殖的方式培育出来的。
The seedless water melons are developed via asexual reproduction. 无性生殖

Collocations

大力培育
to cultivate …with great efforts
良种培育
to cultivate good variety of
培育下一代
to bring up and train the next generation
培育幼苗
to cultivate seedlings
培育
to have grown
培育力度
the intensity of cultivation

Word Decomposition


[péi]
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[yù]

nciku Note

培养 and 培育

两个动词都可用于花草等,有给予适宜条件,使合理繁殖的意思;“培养”侧重于长期的教育、训练,“培育”侧重于抚育使之成长。用于事物时,“培养”可说“培养……作风”、“培养……习惯”等。
Both verbs can be used in reference to plants, meaning “to breed or cultivate." When used in reference to human beings, they mean “to foster, to educate." 培养 stresses long-term education and training while 培育 meanss “bringing up." When applied to things, 培养 iusually refers to a style of work, habit, etc.
(1)经过一段时间的试验,他们培育(培养)出了一种新型的花卉。
(2)这个学校自创立以来培育(培养)出了一批又一批人才。
这两个例子中两词可以互换。但在其他用法中各有一些不同的习惯搭配,如“培养细菌”、“培育树苗”、“培育英才”、“培养接班人等一般不能互换。
In the examples above, the two words are interchangeable. But in other usages each has some customary collocations, such as 培养细菌(culturing of bacteria),培育树苗(a growing sapling),培育英才(to cultivate elite)、培养接班人(to cultivate successor) etc. which are not interchangeable.
(3)他是由他师父一手培养起来的。
(4)这个活动可以培养学生们独立思考的能力。
(5)他酷爱养花,用了一年的时间,精心培育了两棵优良的品种。

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