| 单词 | the fens |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe fens b. esp. †the fen (obsolete), the fens: certain low-lying districts in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, and some adjoining counties. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > [noun] > specific the fenc1540 low country1776 Paris basin1830 905 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 905 Eall oð ða fennas norð. c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 1 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 77 In lincolneshyr, fast by the fene, Ther stant a hows. 1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 59 Divers lands and wast grounds called the Fennes. 1770 T. Gray Let. 25 Nov. in Corr. (1971) III. 1151 200,000 acres are drown'd in the Fens here. 1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 92 A short visit to the Fens of Cambridgeshire. 1890 Handbk. Lincs. (John Murray) 4 Large flocks of geese are still kept in the Fens about Spalding. < as lemmas |
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