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

单词	pasture
释义	pas·ture I. \-chə(r)\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin pastura, from Latin pastus (past participle of pascere to pasture, feed, graze) + -ura -ure — more at food 1. a. : grass or other plants grown for the feeding of grazing animals : herbage < grows quickly and makes excellent pasture for cattle > b. archaic : food, nourishment 2. a. (1) : land that is used for the grazing of animals or is suitable for such use < makes me lie down in green pastures — Ps 23:2 (Revised Standard Version) > < buffalo pastures on the prairie — R.L.Neuberger > (2) : a lot used for grazing < a small, fenced-in holding pasture — John Bird > < his lease was cut into two separate pastures — F.B.Gipson > (3) : a large enclosed section of a cattle ranch b. : feeding ground < whales, like seals, feed in different pastures at different seasons — National Geographic > c. : a scene of activity < people in more distant pastures, even in literature and science — Dallas Finn > d. : a place or state of retirement < eased out and retired to pasture to make room for the younger man — James Jones > 3. : the feeding of livestock : grazing < only about 19 percent is used for the pasture of animals — P.E.James > II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English pasturen, from Middle French pasturer, from pasture, n. *intransitive verb* 1. : to feed on growing grass or herbage : graze < men and women holding cows on a rope in a field while the cowspastured — Arnold Bennett > 2. : to feed as if in a pasture < the very early morning when the animals are pasturing on the seaweed — Nautilus > *transitive verb* 1. : feed, nourish < a sufficiently unwashed citizen may pasture more than ten thousand lice at one time — Gove Hambidge > 2. a. : to cause or permit to feed on growing grass : put out to pasture < pastured his cattle on the open range > b. : to supply growing grass as food for : let graze < rich grassland that could pasture many cattle > 3. a. : to eat down in grazing < the field was pastured bare > b. : to put livestock to graze on : use as pasture < a conflict between those who wanted to farm the land and those who wanted to pasture it > < some growers pasture young sweet clover as soon as the plants are large enough — D.C.McIntosh & D.M.Orr > Synonyms: see feed
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