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prairie schooner

燎原号,草原帆船,燎原号帆船,燎原号游艇

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a type of covered wagon, similar to but smaller than the Conestoga wagon, used by pioneers in crossing the prairies and plains of North America.

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Examples

  • He stands, one assumes on a porch, which overlooks a prairie.

  • One year later and 10 blocks away, my mother came into the world, the granddaughter of those pioneers who had roamed the prairie.

  • There, abandoned “ghost towns” populate the prairie fields and deserts, serving as a reminder of a not-so-distant past.

  • Harvey now lives in the central prairie province of Saskatchewan, Canadian news reports say, along with her husband and son.

  • Because there is always this about the land, about prairie and pond and mountain: they never go away.

  • This, thought I, is a dismal-looking outcome—two men and a dead horse left high and dry on the sun-flooded prairie.

  • Not while I had the open prairie underfoot and the summer sky above, and hands to strike a blow or pull a trigger.

  • "We'll be blamed lucky if we don't run into a prairie-fire before mornin'," Piegan grumbled.

  • One company also has irrigation works, and ready-made farms for settlers in the prairie provinces.

  • The sergeant went out, and when the beat of hoofs sank into the silence of the prairie, Winston called Courthorne in.