Urban Climates
Seventeenth-Century Dutch Agriculture
【单词】
Dutch：n. 荷兰人；adj. 荷兰的，荷兰人的，荷兰语的
peasant：n. 农民，农夫
husbandry：n. 农业，资源管理
fodder：n. 草料，炮灰
yield：v. 屈服，投降; 生产; 获利 | n. 产量，产额; 投资的收益
horticulture：n. 园艺学，园艺
reclaim：v. 取回，开拓，开垦
reclamation：n. 开垦，开拓
rotation：n. 旋转，轮流，[农]轮作
graze：v. 放牧，（让动物）吃草
ash：n. 灰，灰烬，废墟
legendary：adj. 传奇的，传说的，极其著名的
windmill：n. 风车，风车磨坊
hectare：n. 公顷
【长难句】
Dutch agriculture was modernized and commercialized new crops and agricultural techniques raised levels of production so that they were in line with market demands, and cheap grain was imported annually from the Baltic region in large quantities.
Importing the grain, which would have been expensive and time consuming for the Dutch to have produced themselves, kept the price of grain low and thus stimulated individual demand for other foodstuffs and consumer goods.
In addition to dairy farming and cultivating industrial crops, a third sector of the Dutch economy reflected the way in which agriculture was being modernized --- horticulture.
