Pasture
['pɑːstʃə] or ['pæstʃɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.
校對:拉里--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Food; nourishment.
(n.) Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
(n.) Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.
(v. t.) To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
(v. i.) To feed on growing grass; to graze.
塞西莉整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Herbage, herbs, pasturage, grass, grazing land.
v. a. Supply with pasturage, graze, turn out to pasture.
錄入:梅林达
解釋/意思:
n. grass for grazing: ground covered with grass for grazing.—v.t. to feed on pasture: to supply with grass.—v.i. to feed on pasture: to graze.—adj. Past′ūrable that can be pastured: fit for pasture.—ns. Past′ūrage the business of feeding or grazing cattle: pasture-land: grass for feeding; Past′ūre-land land appropriated to pasture.—adj. Past′ūreless destitute of pasture.
艾伦整理
例句/造句/用法:
- From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The poorness of the pasture had, in his opinion, occasioned the degradation of their cattle, which degenerated sensibly from me generation to another. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The advantage of inclosure is greater for pasture than for corn. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Sometimes such islands are large enough to serve as pasture grounds. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- 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.
- They drifted northward as the snows melted for summer pasture, and southward to winter pasture after the custom of the steppes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If it did, more corn land would soon be turned into pasture. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- We shall obey the call of the summer pastures and the winter pastures in our blood, the call of the mountains, the desert, and the sea. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Wells were stopped up and pastures destroyed by the nomads. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The gilding of the Indian summer mellowed the pastures far and wide. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And are there good pastures? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Their herding was still blended with hunting; they fought constantly for their pastures against hostile families. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A number of horses pasturing in the field rushed away at his approach, nor, though he called them loudly, did they pause in their wild career. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The land is manured, either by pasturing the cattle upon it, or by feeding them in the stable, and from thence carrying out their dung to it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- That friend and fellow-Sheep, who spoke of himself as pasturing in the country prisons; who was he? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The sons of Jacob had been pasturing their flocks near there. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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