| 单词 | back settlement |
| 释义 | > as lemmasback settlement b. sometimes with the inferred sense of ‘distant, outlying, remote,’ as in back country n., back settlement. Also back area: a region behind a field of operations (esp. Military). ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > remote or inaccessible outc1425 inaccessible?a1475 out-way1532 deviate1575 unaccessible1596 reachless1597 devious1599 wandering1600 untouchable1622 outlying1651 back1683 no-nationa1756 out-of-the-way1756 outlandish1792 eccentric1800 outworld1808 out-by1816 outside1847 off-lying1859 unget-at-able1862 far-out1887 far-back1900 society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > front or front line > area behind battle-zone back area1923 firebase1955 1683 W. Penn Let. Free Soc. Traders 1 The Back-Lands being..Richer than those that lie by Navigable Waters. 1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 281 To fall on the Back Settlements, of Pensylvania. 1783 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 248 The back lands are as important in the eyes of some, as the fisheries. 1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. i. 4 In the back settlements, where the sole employment was agriculture. 1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. p. vii The farthest back-areas where the enemy aeroplanes harried their camps. 1937 Times 25 Oct. 13/4 It [sc. a speech] called shame on the back-area workers who shirked extra hours and thereby helped the enemy. 1940 E. C. Shepherd Britain's Air Power 6 The bomber..might have to travel only 50 miles from our own lines in France to the back areas of the German Army to bomb dumps. 1956 Planning 22 59 Land that has been left derelict for many years with top soil destroyed exists as a consolidated mass of weed-covered uneven land... Such areas, often referred to as ‘back-areas’, have to be bulldozed and scraped level. < as lemmas |
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