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sand-groper

/sand-groh-per/US // ˈsændˌgroʊ pər //

采砂人,采砂者,采砂工,沙虫

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Australian Slang.

    • : a native of the arid region of Western Australia.

Examples

  • There is only sand, a white ball, and a flag indicating the hole.

  • When the game starts, there is only sand, a white ball, a flag indicating hole 1, and a “0” at the top of the screen.

  • And there, the sand castle builder and tag player who loved her aunt more than science would be buried.

  • Mr. Wynd said the shrinking process includes filling the head with hot sand and boiling it with herbs.

  • The family had grown up dirt-poor, sharecropping the 20,000 acres of cotton that stretched out below Sand Mountain.

  • Broken crocks should be strewn upon the tray, and on to this is heaped peaty soil mixed with sand.

  • You speak with about as little reflection as we might expect from one of those children down there playing in the sand.

  • Edna looked at her feet, and noticed the sand and slime between her brown toes.

  • The little faces shone like polished bronze; they held their hands out, their bare feet pattered in the sand.

  • Though built upon the sand, they still endured, and would continue to endure.