paddock
/pad-uhk/US // ˈpæd ək //UK // (ˈpædək) //
围场,围栏
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n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a small, usually enclosed field near a stable or barn for pasturing or exercising animals.
- : the enclosure in which horses are saddled and mounted before a race.
- : Australian. any enclosed field or pasture.
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to confine or enclose in or as in a paddock.
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Examples
The atmosphere of the stables and the breath of the blue grass paddock revived in her memory and lingered in her nostrils.
It looked into a garden, whence a wicket-gate opened into a small paddock; all beyond was fine meadow-land and wood.
On the highest point of the pass they met an inbound pack train belonging to the Thirty-six, in charge of one Paddock.
We had sixty horse-posts driven in the gate paddock; how many guests I cannot guess, perhaps 150.
Well, you young genl'men du have rare goings on down in the paddock, that you du.'
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