| 单词 | wide open spaces |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswide (also great, vast) open spaces 2. In plural. Large tracts of unpopulated or sparsely populated countryside. Chiefly in wide (also great, vast) open spaces. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > common or unenclosed common1377 moor1386 common land1470 champestrea1492 common field1523 champaign1555 commons1583 champian1611 commonity1612 public domain1627 commonage1635 commoninga1661 range1707–8 open1733 common area1837 mark1849 veld1852 outdoors1859 wide (also great, vast) open spaces1910 1885 A. J. C. Hare Stud. Russia ii. 76 Endless are the open spaces..almost populationless. 1910 H. G. Wells New Machiavelli (1911) i. iv. 131 I recall as if I had been there the wide open spaces, the ragged hillsides [of South Africa]. 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith viii. 138 You will find me somewhere out there in the great open spaces where men are men. 1944 F. Clune Red Heart 35 The desert is an open book to the man of the Vast Open Spaces, but to the schoolmaster it was a closed book. 1975 Times 8 Feb. 10/4 If you seek clean fresh air and the wide open spaces (cliche though it is, that phrase is exactly right), this is the place. < as lemmas |
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