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单词 olive ground
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olive ground
olive ground n.
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1715 L. Theobald tr. Aristophanes Clouds i. i. 7 Before that, I liv'd in my Farm with Ease and Satisfaction.., had my Hives of Bees, my Flocks of Sheep, and my Olive-grounds.
1797 A. W. Radcliffe Italian 120 These extensive domains included olive-grounds, vineyards, and some corn-land.
1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lx. 468 They found themselves enclosed in a walled olive-ground.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities iii. iv. 183 In the vineyards and the olive-grounds and among the cropped grass and the stubble of the corn, along the fruitful banks of the broad rivers, and in the sand of the sea-shore.
1911 G. B. Grundy Thucydides & Hist. of his Age 76 He therefore adopted the plan of destroying not merely the cereal crops, but also the vine and olive grounds.
1929 S. M. Elam George Borrow 105 I mean, Don Jorge, certain acts of flagitiousness practised by the clergy in lone and remote palomares, in olive grounds and gardens.
2016 Independent (Electronic ed.) 1 Apr. The third and grandest of the Durrells' Corfiot homes, ‘Snow-White villa’ was..in acres of olive grounds with its own Greek Orthodox chapel.
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