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pasture

/pas-cher, pahs-/US // ˈpæs tʃər, ˈpɑs- //UK // (ˈpɑːstʃə) //

草场,牧草,牧场,牧区

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n.名词 noun
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    • : Also called pas·ture·land [pas-cher-land, pahs-]. /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/. an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
    • : a specific area or piece of such ground.
    • : grass or other plants for feeding livestock.
v.有主动词 verb
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    pas·tured, pas·tur·ing.

    • : to feed by putting them out to graze on pasture.
    • : to furnish with pasture.
    • : to graze upon.
v.无主动词 verb
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    pas·tured, pas·tur·ing.

    • : to graze in a pasture.

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Examples

  • How he took me to the top of the pasture and pointed it out.

  • Go on, look — maybe at one lying near you right now, curled around his folded legs on a dog bed, or sprawled on his side on the tile floor, paws flitting through the pasture of a dream.

  • With his land in the crosshairs, he debated whether to run cows on this pasture or that one, whether to build a barn on a hill that might someday be taken over by Canadian investors.

  • Amazonian rainforest is burned for cattle pasture, then abandoned.

  • The animals Brown raises are fed grass and raised in pastures.

  • You will find winding pasture for sheep and highland cattle.

  • Thus far, Congress has prevented the service from putting the Warthog out to pasture.

  • The Metropolitan Police said that sending retired horses out to pasture was a common practice.

  • They are pastoralists, who have dealt with declining pasture for grazing and even less water for living.

  • Pollock opens in 1957 in a rural Ohio pasture overlooking a “holler” called Knockemstiff.

  • There was only one reason why Billy Woodchuck didn't exactly care to dig a new home for himself in the pasture just then.

  • Many acres of the ranch were profitably let, although by the month only, as pasture both for cows and horses.

  • British pasture farming was to be annihilated, and an immense stimulus given to that of our continental rivals.

  • Let her have one day at the 'mowing,' if you choose, then she'd better be put into that old pasture and left there.

  • But when it grows late, even if Frank does not come, they know it is supper time and leave the pasture.