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paddy

/pad-ee/US // ˈpæd i //UK // (ˈpædɪ) //

稻谷,稻田,水稻,稻米

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pad·dies.

    • : a rice field.
    • : rice, especially in the husk, either uncut or gathered.

Examples

  • In a 2015 and 2016 drought, saltwater reached up to 90 kilometers inland, destroying 405,000 hectares of rice paddies.

  • Most rice plants are grown in fields, or paddies, that are typically filled with around 10 centimeters of water.

  • Among those on board an overcrowded cargo plane that crashed into a rice paddy shortly after takeoff on April 4, was Captain Mary Therese Klinker, 27, of the Air Force.

  • They also introduced a lottery system for rice paddy location that shifts each season, so that farmers have a greater incentive to follow these organic rules.

  • The legendary Captain Paddy Brown was by some accounts the most decorated firefighter in the nation.

  • Is Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (which won the Mann Booker Prize in 1993) the only one of your novels that stands on its own?

  • Irish bookmaker Paddy Power funded the trips to the Hermit Kingdom, but stopped after Kim Jong-Un purged his uncle.

  • Was it anything that Scott saw when he was in Pyongyang that encouraged Paddy Power to drop the project?

  • One time, when an armored car drove by, Paddy Considine said, “Hey, Martin, are those your Hobbit residuals?”

  • Nearly all the mutineers swung round and galloped headlong for the landward boundary of the paddy field.

  • The warrior uttered a grunt of pain, cast a surprised angry stare at the shaveling of a Paddy, and thrust with his lance.

  • "I should like to see you do it," returned Aunt Maria, looking indignantly at the interfering Paddy.

  • Paddy Rouse sprang inside with drawn pistol, but a hand struck up his pistol arm and his harmless shot went through the roof.

  • At that moment Paddy, hatless and disheveled, plunged through the crowd toward Peter Gross.