| 单词 | virgin land |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvirgin land virgin land n. previously uncultivated land, spec. [translating Russian tseliná] in Western Siberia and Kazakhstan, land made the subject of an intensive agricultural programme by the Soviet government since 1954. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] westerneOE weste landOE wastinea1175 westec1175 wastec1200 wildernc1200 wildernessc1200 wildernessc1230 warlottc1290 forestc1320 wastyc1325 deserta1398 wastern?a1400 wildnessa1513 the wilds of1600 vastness1605 vastacy1607 roughet1616 wild1637 wildland1686 bush1780 wastage1823 mesquite1834 wasteland1887 mulga1896 virgin bush1905 boondock1944 boonies1954 virgin land1955 1955 Britannica Bk. of Year 460/2 New state farms were to be set up at once mainly in Kazakhstan and western Siberia, where there were said to be many millions of acres of virgin or neglected, but fertile, land. 1959 Listener 10 Sept. 378/2 Mr. Khrushchev's virgin~lands scheme in Siberia and Kazakhstan. 1967 C. Cockburn I, Claud xxxv. 438 Hardly anyone can be packed off to some social equivalent of the Russian ‘virgin lands’ for lousing things up. 1981 O. Bernier Pleasure & Privilege xiii. 222 Every day men were claiming and enclosing new, virgin land. Homesteaders were at work all over the Eastern states. < as lemmas |
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