英语单词 | pasture |
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英美音标 | 英 ['pɑːstʃə(r)] 美 ['pæstʃər] |
中文释义 | n.牧场;草原 vi.吃草 vt.放牧 |
英语例句 | (1) The land was used chiefly for pasture. (2) We have put our cattle out to pasture. (3) Draping the skin over his shoulders, he went to the pasture to wait for the lion. (4) There we saw herds of cows grazing on the pasture. (5) We have put our cattle out to pasture. (6) Cows are left to graze in the pasture. (7) Deer can be tamed and trained to go out to pasture. |
中文例句 | (1) 这土地多半用作牧场。 (2) 我们已经把牛放到牧场上吃草去了。 (3) 把羊皮披在身上后,猎人到草原上去等狮子。 (4) 我们在那里看到一群群的牛在草地上吃草。 (5) 我们已经把牛放到牧场上吃草去了。 (6) 奶牛都是留给放牧在牧场。 (7) 鹿群经过驯化,可以放牧。 |
vocabulary简明 | If your cattle are feeling hungry, you should let them pasture, or graze, in a grassy field known as a pasture. Pasture is both a noun and a verb associated with grazing animals. |
vocabulary扩展 | As a noun, a pasture is a field where animals such as horses and cattle can graze, or feed. Pasture can also refer to the grasses or other plants that grow in a pasture. As a verb, pasture means "to graze" or "to release animals into a pasture for grazing." You also might hear this word used in the idiom "Put out to pasture," which means "to retire someone," usually because of old age. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-VAR 可变名词]牧场;牧草地 Pasture is land with grass growing on it for farm animals to eat.
2 [PHRASE 短语]更好的地方(或工作、条件);更好的前程 If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better. [prep PHR]
3 [PHRASE 短语]放牧 If you put animals out to pasture, you move them out into the fields so they can eat the grass. [V inflects] 4 [PHRASE 短语]让…退休;使赋闲 If you say that someone is being put out to pasture, you mean they are no longer being employed because they are considered to be too old or no longer useful. [V inflects] [disapproval] [INFORMAL 非正式]
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