一、詳細(xì)釋義:


n.

牧場(chǎng),草地,牧草


例句:

The bull bellowed in the pasture.

牧場(chǎng)的公牛吼叫。


例句:

A flock of sheep ranged over the mountain slope in search of pasture.

一群羊走遍了山坡找尋牧草。


牲畜飼養(yǎng),放牧


例句:

That's because pasture grazing is inherently inefficient.

這是因?yàn)槟翀?chǎng)放牧效率不高。


v.

放牧;吃草 [I,T]


例句:

It is a good place for goats to pasture.

這是羊吃草的好地方。


例句:

All stock should have access to pasture during the grazing season.

在放牧季節(jié),所有的牲畜都可享用牧草。


二、詞義辨析:


lawn,meadow,pasture

這些名詞均含“草地”之意。 lawn多指公園、庭院中經(jīng)常加以修剪的草坪。 meadow指為牲畜提供食用草,可以貯備干草的牧草地;也指野外的低草地。 pasture通常指放牧用的草地或牧草。


三、參考例句:


We have put our cattle out to pasture.

我們已經(jīng)把牛放到牧場(chǎng)上吃草去了。


That's because pasture grazing is inherently inefficient.

這是因?yàn)槟翀?chǎng)放牧效率不高。


Today a hay type of pasture plant is really an anachronism.

現(xiàn)在干草型牧草是不合適宜的。


This is a biennial, and one of the most useful pasture plants we have.

這是兩年生植物,也是我們最有用的牧草之一。


All stock should have access to pasture during the grazing season.

在放牧季節(jié),所有的牲畜都可享用牧草。


This pasture can no longer carry such a large number of cattle and sheep.

這塊草地再也不能供養(yǎng)那么多牛羊了。


It was an old, rabbit-bitten pasture, with a foot-track wandering across it and a molehill here and there

這是片古老的牧場(chǎng),給兔子啃得七零八落,一條踏出的小徑橫穿其中,這里那里盡是鼴鼠拱出的小丘。


This amounts to 1.7 billion tons a year, enough to smother about 110 000 sq km of pasture, half the area of Victoria.

這相當(dāng)于17億噸一年,數(shù)量之大足以覆蓋110 000平方公里的牧場(chǎng)(半個(gè)維多利亞州的面積)。