Homestead
['həʊmsted] or ['homstɛd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land.
(noun.) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law.
(noun.) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family.
(verb.) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead.
卡尔顿手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
(n.) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
(n.) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.
埃罗尔校對
例句/造句/用法:
- As the fly passed the group which had run out from the homestead they shouted Hurrah! 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- An old man came into the remoter light of the fire from the direction of the homestead. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I have stood many a time and thought what a neat little homestead it would make. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- It was in many ways an ideal homestead, toward which the family has always felt the strongest attachment, but the association with Milan has never wholly ceased. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It has widened man’s horizon, and given him all the lands instead of only the limits of his homestead. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- In the cellar of the Edison homestead young Alva soon accumulated a chemical outfit, constituting the first in a long series of laboratories. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There was plough-land and pasture, and copses of bare trees, copses of bushes, and homesteads naked and work-bare. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Who would associate crime with these dear old homesteads? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Robert Jordan explained the process of homesteading. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
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