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单词 fir
释义
firfir /fɜː $ fɜːr/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINfir
Origin:
Old English fyrh
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • At night, they lay on beds made from the branches of balsam firs.
  • He's awa' jist noo, but he's always hame fir Christmas.
  • It hides everywhere from everywhere as each point of perspective is gained by herds of resinous firs.
  • Sparkle's hull was built of two laminates of diagonally laid red cedar on an inner core of longitudinal Douglas fir.
  • The basement behind formed the firs fire station with its antediluvian engine, and opposite was the police station.
  • When some mice found the garret, the fir tree was happy for the company.
  • You always clear away the soft topsoil till you get a fir base.
word sets
WORD SETS
afforestation, noundeforestation, nounfir, nounfirebreak, nounforested, adjectiveforester, noungrove, noungum, nounhardwood, nounjungle, nounlog, verblogger, nounlogging, nounlogjam, nounlumber, verblumber, nounlumberjack, nounlumberman, nounlumbermill, nounlumberyard, nounpine, nounplantation, nounreforestation, nounsapling, nounspruce, nounwoodcutter, nounwoodsman, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· At night, they lay on beds made from the branches of balsam firs.· I spotted it briefly as it hopped among the thick branches of a balsam fir close above me.· The balsam fir, which had not shown much decline prior to 1986, also began to be diminished.· Here is also a carpet of two-to three-inch-tall balsam firs, and similarly-sized red maples.· The balsam fir did not appear to be affected at all, or at least not much.· The red spruces and balsam firs that dominated the vegetation near the mountaintop thrived under high rainfall and cool temperatures.· There are also maple, spruce, pine and balsam fir saplings, and patches of wild raspberries and blueberries.· The berm was now covered with a strip of forest, primarily of balsam fir and red maples.
· There were sudden sharp sounds, a fir cone dropping to the ground, a seagull.
· When I enter the hushed assembly of the fir trees, I see the cathedral of all religions.· The next winter, the fir tree was chosen for a Christmas tree.· It's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees, and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it.· The sharp ax hurt, and now the fir tree was unhappy at leaving its fine forest home.· The Phalangists look innocent enough with their little moustaches and their campfires amid the fir trees, the stuff of youth movements.· After an uncomfortable journey, the fir tree was erected in a large and beautifully furnished hall.· Paul's promise of variety was soon fulfilled as we turned off the ridge and headed into a forest of fir trees.· The fir tree thought it was being left there until spring, when it would be replanted.
a tree with leaves shaped like needles that do not fall off in winter:  a fir tree
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