Acre

例句:

• The grounds were more than an acre and a quarter in extent, and they were filled with people! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• We have an acre of hot-houses, and pines as common as pays in the sayson. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Few of these islets contained over an acre of ground, but presently we sighted a much larger one directly ahead. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Some of the giant redwood logs must be split in the woods with powder before they can be handled on the saw carriage, and the average yield per acre is in the neighborhood of 150,000 feet. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In the present state of Europe, the proprietor of a single acre of land is as perfectly secure in his possession as the proprietor of 100,000. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• We must let Edison tell the story of some of his experiences: At the Universal Exposition at Paris, in 1889, I made a personal exhibit covering about an acre. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The mules were first driven into a stockade, called a corral, inclosing an acre or more of ground. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The American machine cut an acre of oats in twenty-two minutes, the English machine in sixty-six minutes, and the Algerian in seventy-two. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Take any nation that produces large crop yields per acre and you will find that the nation that uses the most nitrogen per acre grows the largest crops. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Then he tried to take Acre, where his own siege artillery, just captured at sea by the English, was used against him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Usually less seed should be planted per acre under dry-farming conditions than is used in humid sections. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It seems Robin's fame attracted more visitants than was consistent with the growth of the heather, upon a moor worth a shilling an acre. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He could make a great flourish over the battle of Aboukir and conceal the shame and loss of Acre. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He plants an acre, and when this is in bloom he inspects it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• One apple-raiser in this district gathered two hundred bushels of apples per acre from his six-year-old trees. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Before sunset he had cut six acres of wheat, and convinced his audience that his machine was a great improvement over the old method. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He waved his whip in the direction of the Bellomont acres, which lay outspread before them in opulent undulations. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It built up countless acres of hitherto unprofitable land. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He married Miss Griswold of Poughkeepsie, and bought an estate of two hundred acres near that city. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• To supply this number of sleepers, 300,000 trees were felled, the growth of which would require little less than 5,000 acres of forest land. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The ten acres of the reservation offered an excellent opportunity for truck-farming, and the versatile head of the family could not avoid trying his luck in this branch of work. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Pitt's money and acres had a great effect upon his brother. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Such a negro, over and above this quantity of tobacco, can manage, they reckon, four acres of Indian corn. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• On the following Saturday it was shown at Trappe, and it was afterwards used on the farm of Mr. Tench Tilghman, where 180 acres of wheat, oats and barley were cut with it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Seventy-five acres a day is its task. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The great Harburg-Vienna factories cover sixty-seven acres, are capitalized at 9,000,000 marks, and employ 3,500 hands. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The Dalrymple farms in 1893 had 54,000 acres in wheat, and employed 283 self-binding reapers to harvest the crop. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Many hundred millions of acres in Asia, Africa, and America are still in a forest, and a great deal even in Europe. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• They extended, he declared, over fifty acres. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Men who heard of a machine that would cut one hundred and seventy-five acres of wheat in less than eight days--as happened in one case--naturally decided that it was worth investigating. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

弗朗西斯整理