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单词 pastoralist
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Definition of pastoralist in English:

pastoralist

noun ˈpɑːst(ə)r(ə)lɪstˈpæstərələst
  • 1(especially in Australia) a sheep or cattle farmer.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They reduced transport cost and isolation for the many farmers, pastoralists and miners, making it possible to compete on local and world markets.
    • The schemes provide financial help to farmers and pastoralists with projects to develop self-sufficient water sources that reduce their dependency on water transported to properties, particularly in times of drought.
    • Rising interethnic tensions, sparked by competition for land use between local farmers and displaced pastoralists, could threaten reconstruction across southern Sudan.
    • The people of this area are pastoralists, keeping cattle, sheep, goats and camels to provide for most of their needs.
    • Banyankole society is divided into a high-ranked caste (social class) of pastoralists (nomadic herders) and a lower-ranked caste of farmers.
    • In addition to losing land to ranchers and farmers, pastoralists have seen their mobility drastically reduced by the expansion of national game parks.
    • Community members know about fire in a direct and active way, but they know it only as a danger and a threat, and this submerges memories of more benign fires from the past, the fires used by farmers and pastoralists.
    • In both regions, many of these fortunate early settlers developed relatively comfortable life-styles as farmers and pastoralists.
    • But after two years of talks, two nearby pastoralists will run cattle on the property, while training the station's young people, and building up its herd.
    • United Livestock Producers believes the State Government's agreement with Emirates airlines could prove a boon to Mid West farmers and pastoralists.
    • Modern Ewenki are hunters, farmers, or nomadic pastoralists - those who raise domesticated animals and wander with their herds in search of pasture and water.
    • It gave pastoralists and farmers a 30-year breathing space until, by the 1980s, the rabbits had acquired an immunity and began to breed again.
    • Namibia was originally inhabited by nomadic hunters, gatherers, and pastoralists (livestock herders), the ancestors of today's Bushman and Khoispeaking people.
    • The stated aim of the 10 Point Plan was ‘to strike a fair balance between respect for native title and security for pastoralists, farmers and miners’.
    • Oromos are mainly farmers and pastoralists (herders).
    • The rate of urbanization in Chad is low, with most of the people still living as cultivators and pastoralists in dispersed hamlets, cattle camps, villages, and oases.
    • As new forms of abstraction make it possible to produce a surplus from the land with fewer and fewer farmers, pastoralists turn them off their land, depriving them of their living.
    • Certainly, many small-scale farmers, pastoralists, and others lack viable alternatives.
    • After more farmers, pastoralists and settlers had moved north, several government surveyors visited the Flinders Ranges.
    • When they killed sheep or cattle the pastoralists retaliated by killing the Aborigines.
  • 2archaic A writer of pastorals.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In places the critic himself seems to have succumbed to the conventional wisdom, for instance portraying the Georgian poets as pastoralists and ignoring their rebellion against syrupy Victorianism.
    • Perhaps the most successful pastoralist was Sidney Kidman.
    • Among some of these and later pastoralists were Thomas Elder, John Warren, John Baker and Sidney Kidman.
 
 

Definition of pastoralist in US English:

pastoralist

nounˈpæstərələstˈpastərələst
  • 1A sheep or cattle farmer.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Banyankole society is divided into a high-ranked caste (social class) of pastoralists (nomadic herders) and a lower-ranked caste of farmers.
    • The schemes provide financial help to farmers and pastoralists with projects to develop self-sufficient water sources that reduce their dependency on water transported to properties, particularly in times of drought.
    • Community members know about fire in a direct and active way, but they know it only as a danger and a threat, and this submerges memories of more benign fires from the past, the fires used by farmers and pastoralists.
    • The rate of urbanization in Chad is low, with most of the people still living as cultivators and pastoralists in dispersed hamlets, cattle camps, villages, and oases.
    • Rising interethnic tensions, sparked by competition for land use between local farmers and displaced pastoralists, could threaten reconstruction across southern Sudan.
    • They reduced transport cost and isolation for the many farmers, pastoralists and miners, making it possible to compete on local and world markets.
    • In both regions, many of these fortunate early settlers developed relatively comfortable life-styles as farmers and pastoralists.
    • The stated aim of the 10 Point Plan was ‘to strike a fair balance between respect for native title and security for pastoralists, farmers and miners’.
    • When they killed sheep or cattle the pastoralists retaliated by killing the Aborigines.
    • In addition to losing land to ranchers and farmers, pastoralists have seen their mobility drastically reduced by the expansion of national game parks.
    • Modern Ewenki are hunters, farmers, or nomadic pastoralists - those who raise domesticated animals and wander with their herds in search of pasture and water.
    • Oromos are mainly farmers and pastoralists (herders).
    • After more farmers, pastoralists and settlers had moved north, several government surveyors visited the Flinders Ranges.
    • United Livestock Producers believes the State Government's agreement with Emirates airlines could prove a boon to Mid West farmers and pastoralists.
    • Certainly, many small-scale farmers, pastoralists, and others lack viable alternatives.
    • It gave pastoralists and farmers a 30-year breathing space until, by the 1980s, the rabbits had acquired an immunity and began to breed again.
    • The people of this area are pastoralists, keeping cattle, sheep, goats and camels to provide for most of their needs.
    • Namibia was originally inhabited by nomadic hunters, gatherers, and pastoralists (livestock herders), the ancestors of today's Bushman and Khoispeaking people.
    • As new forms of abstraction make it possible to produce a surplus from the land with fewer and fewer farmers, pastoralists turn them off their land, depriving them of their living.
    • But after two years of talks, two nearby pastoralists will run cattle on the property, while training the station's young people, and building up its herd.
  • 2archaic A writer of pastorals.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Perhaps the most successful pastoralist was Sidney Kidman.
    • Among some of these and later pastoralists were Thomas Elder, John Warren, John Baker and Sidney Kidman.
    • In places the critic himself seems to have succumbed to the conventional wisdom, for instance portraying the Georgian poets as pastoralists and ignoring their rebellion against syrupy Victorianism.
 
 
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