1. 1砍伐(整片)森林;伐林;毀林

    To deforest a place is to cut down, or burn down, the trees there so it is no longer a forest. People do this to make , roads, mines, or towns. The tidy dictionary picture is “all the trees,” though actually a few may be left standing; what is gone is the forest as a living place. This is a verb: they deforested the valley. News and science like it; in everyday talk people often say cut down the forest, or jump to the noun deforestation. It is not a gentle word — it names a large, often ugly change to the land. You will meet it a lot in climate and wildlife writing. It is not the same as logging one patch and letting the woods grow back: that may still be cutting trees, but deforest is the stronger claim that the forest itself is being removed.

組成de- (off, away, undo) + forest. So: to take the forest away.

同家族的字

  • forestthe woods themselves; this verb is built on that noun
  • deforestationthe noun for the same action or result
  • reforestto plant trees again on land that was cleared

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

DeForestname

  • 1

    A surname from French, equivalent to English Forest or Woods, equivalent to the modern French surname Deforet.

  • 2

    A male given name transferred from the surname, equivalent to English Forest.

deforestverb/dɪˈfɒɹɪst/

  • 1

    To clear (an area) of forest.

  • 2

    archaiclawTo disafforest (remove legal status as forest).

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