Word · Frequency #2655
crop (verb)
剪短；修剪；裁切
to cut something short, especially hair or parts of a picture
- 1.
cut short
剪短
- 2.
yield crops
产出庄稼
- 3.
let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
让在田野或牧场中吃草
出产（作物）；产庄稼；放牧；让（牲畜）吃草；剪短；产出庄稼；让在田野或牧场中吃草
In use
I cropped the photo to remove the background.
Farmers crop wheat in the summer.
The land is cropped with corn every year.
crop [noun]
The farmer crops wheat every summer.
农民每年夏天收割小麦。
crop [noun]
常用于指修剪头发或植物。
She cropped her hair very short.
她把头发剪得很短。
crop [noun] from [noun]
I cropped the unwanted people from the photo.
我从照片中裁剪掉了不想要的人。
Verb forms
Connections
Collocations
- crop one's hair short
- 剪短头发
- She cropped her hair short before the summer.夏天前她把头发剪短了。
- crop the grass
- （牲畜）啃食青草
- The sheep cropped the grass in the meadow.羊在草地上啃食青草。
- crop well
- （庄稼）收成好
- The land crops well after the rain.雨后这块地收成很好。
Idioms & figurative uses
- crop up
- 突然出现；意外发生We will deal with any problems that crop up during the trip.我们会处理旅行中出现的任何问题。
Synonyms
Confusing words
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记忆联想：crop 像剪刀‘咔嚓’声——剪短；地里的庄稼被 crop（收割），留下残茬让牲畜 crop（吃草）。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：haircutting、agriculture、animal grazing crop 作动词时有多个含义，语境差异较大：“剪短”多用于理发、修剪；“出产庄稼”和“让牲畜在田野或牧场吃草”多出现在农业、养殖相关话题。整体没有单一的固定语体，比较中性，具体意思要结合上下文判断。
Grammar Note
及物动词：收割、修剪、种植；不及物动词：收获
Pronunciation & Spelling
These words all rhyme with crop in American English: stop, top, shop, drop, pop, hop. Be careful with lookalikes like cope, which is spelled similarly but pronounced /koʊp/.
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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