Forage
['fɒrɪdʒ] or ['fɔrɪdʒ]
解释:
(n.) The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
(n.) Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
(v. i.) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
(v. t.) To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
整理:华莱士
同义词及近义词:
n. Food (for horses and cattle).
v. n. Wander in search of forage.
比安卡手打
解释:
n. fodder or food for horses and cattle: provisions: the act of foraging.—v.i. to go about and forcibly carry off food for horses and cattle as soldiers.—v.t. to plunder.—ns. For′age-cap the undress cap worn by infantry soldiers; For′ager.
珍妮特编辑
例句:
- Lee intrenched himself at Amelia Court House, and also his advance north of Jetersville, and sent his troops out to collect forage. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- From Millen to Savannah the country is sandy and poor, and affords but very little forage other than rice straw, which was then growing. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- When its herds and flocks have consumed the forage of one part of the country, it removes to another, and from that to a third. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It occupied much of the road in marching, and taxed the trains in bringing up forage. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Third, his absence would save the trains drawing his forage and other supplies from Fredericksburg, which had now become our base. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The country was rich and full of supplies of both food and forage. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- For the conveniences of forage, the teams for supplying the army were kept at Harper's Ferry. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The man was dressed like a traveller, in a foraging cap with fur about it, and a heap of cloak. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- A genteel foraging party besieged Shirley in her castle, and compelled her to surrender at discretion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- They went to the river to break the ice, and draw water: they assembled on foraging expeditions, or axe in hand felled the trees for fuel. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The castle and town of Versailles afforded our numbers ample accommodation, and foraging parties took it by turns to supply our wants. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- He, therefore, foraged around the best he could until we reached Grand Gulf. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
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