Prairie
['preərɪ] or ['prɛri]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.
(n.) A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow.
錄入:威廉姆斯
解釋/意思:
n. an extensive meadow or tract of land level or rolling without trees and covered with tall coarse grass.—adj. Prai′ried.—ns. Prai′rie-dog a small gregarious North American marmot; Prai′rie-hawk the American sparrow-hawk; Prai′rie-hen a gallinaceous North American bird: the sharp-tailed grouse; Prai′rie-war′bler an American warbler yellow with black spots; Prai′rie-wolf the coyote.
手打:曼弗雷德
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a prairie, denotes that you will enjoy ease, and even luxury and unobstructed progress. An undulating prairie, covered with growing grasses and flowers, signifies joyous happenings. A barren prairie, represents loss and sadness through the absence of friends. To be lost on one, is a sign of sadness and ill luck.
巴贝奇錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- That which was wild had become domesticated; regular crops took the place of haphazard gleanings from brake or prairie; the possibility of electrical starvation was forever left behind. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The prairie grass was tall and we could not see the beasts, but the sound indicated that they were near. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The animals sold to the government were all young and unbroken, even to the saddle, and were quite as wild as the wild horses of the prairie. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- What Kind of Dogs are Prairie-Dogs? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It is possible to travel for days at a time through country which is dotted over with mounds, every one of which is the home of a pair or more of prairie-dogs. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Prairie-dogs are not really dogs at all, but a kind of a squirrel called a marmot. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The country was a rolling prairie, and, from the higher ground, the vision was obstructed only by the earth's curvature. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This is thrown up by the prairie-dog when he digs out his subterranean home. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Great areas of the American interior were prairie land, whose nomadic tribes subsisted upon vast herds of the now practically extinct bison. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The ice of the last glacial age receded gradually, and gave way to a long period of steppe or prairie-like conditions over the great plain of Europe. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He who has prairie fever once always gets it again, and it sends him off on his travels into the wilds as if he were stung by the gadfly of Io. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- In this year, Mr. McCormick started for the western prairie, and in 1847 built his own factory in Chicago, thus starting the world’s greatest reaper works. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Benjamin was from Indiana, still less populated, where the wolf yet roamed over the prairies. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Broad as the prairies and free in thought as the winds that sweep them, he is idiosyncratically opposed to loose and wasteful methods, to plans of empire that neglect the poor at the gate. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
整理:玛丽