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Pasture French Eaten 12c Modern Latin Early 6416.Pasture

正面 6416.pasture
英 ['pɑːstʃə]美 ['pæstʃɚ]

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释义:
n. 草地;牧场;牧草vt. 放牧;吃草n. (Pasture)人名;(英)帕斯彻;(法)帕斯蒂尔
例句:
1. Every summer the shepherds drive the sheep up to pasture.每年夏天牧羊人都将羊群赶到牧场去。

1、Latin arcus "bow" => Old French arche "arch of a bridge" => arch.2、arch- => arch.
pasture 牧场,牧草地来自拉丁语pascere,放牧,喂养,来自PIE*pa,喂食,喂养,词源同food,company.-ure,名词后缀。即放牧的地方。
pasture (n.)c. 1300, "grass eaten by cattle," from Old French pasture "fodder, grass eaten by cattle" (12c., Modern French pâture), from Late Latin pastura "a feeding, grazing," from Latin pastus, past participle of pascere "to feed, graze" (see pastor). Meaning "land covered with vegetation suitable for grazing" is from early 14c. To be out to pasture "retired" is from 1945, from what was done (ideally) to horses after the active working life.pasture (v.)late 14c., of animals, "to graze;" early 15c., of humans, "to lead to pasture, to feed by putting in a pasture," from Old French pasturer (12c., Modern French pâturer, from pasture (see pasture (n.)). Related: Pastured; pasturing."

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