英语词汇“grass castle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

grass castle

noun Australian

1A grand property owned by a wealthy pastoralist: beef barons flourishing in grass castles...

There have been a lot of kings in grass castles since, but none to equal the scope of these two.
After fleeing the Irish famine, the family became 'kings in grass castles' as the first of Australia's great cattle kings.
Contrary to what bourgeois propagandists would have you believe, the outback of this country was not developed by kings in grass castles.

2A luxurious home paid for with the proceeds of trade in cannabis: the grass castles which the mafia built from their drug earnings...

I interviewed him two days before he disappeared (presumably at the hands of drug lords), and it was the first time I heard the term 'grass castles'.
The next day, we were driven past some impressive houses that the police described as grass castles.
He disliked being called an anti-drugs campaigner, but he did want to expose those who lived in grass castles on the tiny farming blocks whose mysterious profits were corrupting his town.

Origin

1950s: sense 1 derives from the title of Mary Durack's 1959 work Kings in Grass Castles; sense 2 is from grass in the sense 'cannabis'.

单词	grass castle
释义	grass castle noun Australian 1A grand property owned by a wealthy pastoralist: beef barons flourishing in grass castles... There have been a lot of kings in grass castles since, but none to equal the scope of these two. After fleeing the Irish famine, the family became 'kings in grass castles' as the first of Australia's great cattle kings. Contrary to what bourgeois propagandists would have you believe, the outback of this country was not developed by kings in grass castles. 2A luxurious home paid for with the proceeds of trade in cannabis: the grass castles which the mafia built from their drug earnings... I interviewed him two days before he disappeared (presumably at the hands of drug lords), and it was the first time I heard the term 'grass castles'. The next day, we were driven past some impressive houses that the police described as grass castles. He disliked being called an anti-drugs campaigner, but he did want to expose those who lived in grass castles on the tiny farming blocks whose mysterious profits were corrupting his town. Origin 1950s: sense 1 derives from the title of Mary Durack's 1959 work Kings in Grass Castles; sense 2 is from grass in the sense 'cannabis'.
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