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croft

/krawft, kroft/US // krɔft, krɒft //UK // (krɒft) //

庄稼地,角楼,克劳特,庄稼地里

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    British.

    • : a small farm, especially one worked by a tenant.
    • : a small plot of ground adjacent to a house and used as a kitchen garden, to pasture one or two cows, etc.; a garden large enough to feed a family or have commercial value.

Examples

  • Many are responding by saying all this is as absurd as men demanding Lara Croft be suddenly replaced by a male.

  • Eighty years after its publication, the eipc saga of croft farmers and their struggles is still selling steadily.

  • And the sensual vocal interplay between Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim is still the best in the game.

  • It happened a decade ago, when she was in Cambodia shooting the action movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

  • Sir Richard Croft, a fashionable accoucheur of that time, was in attendance upon her with other physicians.

  • The Balfours, I take it, were plainly Celts; their name shows it—the “cold croft,” it means; so does their country.

  • Who would grub out his life in the same croft, when he has free-warren of all fields between this and Rhine?

  • Croft Church is a half-brown, half-grey old building of mixed materials and of most evident age.

  • In this church Bishop Burnet may have listened to his first sermon, for it was at Croft that he was born.