詞匯精選:pasture的用法和辨析
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)。
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