It helps if you go out of your way to cultivate the local people.

主动结交当地人大有好处。

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He purposely tried to cultivate good relations with the press.

他特意设法与新闻界搞好关系。

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The word "culture" comes from the Latin "colere", which literally means "to cultivate".

“文化”这个词来自拉丁语“colere”，字面意思是“培养”。

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"Now this time I get the super money maker because I want now to cultivate a large piece of area, where I can grow more crops, commercial crops."

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Even the Platonic just city will have to cultivate warrior citizens who are prepared to risk life in battle for the sake of their own city.

就算是柏拉图式的正义之城,也都还需要培养战士,一群准备好以生命作赌注,来捍卫其所属城市的公民。

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Well, every single day, my goal right now is to cultivate contentment, which is really hard.

嗯，我现在的目标，就是要每天培养满足感，这真的很难。

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The import surge from China did not begin until years after U.S. producers began to cultivate the Chinese industry.

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Mr. Scevak, who initially carved out just two weeks in San Francisco for his incubator program, now hosts 40% of Startmate's five-month program in the U.S. to give his founders more time to cultivate relationships here.

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In part, this reflects the fact that some of the first rich people to back Labour came from the arts men like David Puttnam, a film maker, and Melvyn Bragg, a television presenter. (Both men are now peers.) But it also illustrates a keenness to cultivate opinion makers.

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