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A granary is a building, or a strong room, where people keep grain after the harvest — wheat most of all, but also , , and the like. The grain is stored dry, up off the wet ground, so it will last and not rot.
A granary isgranary(穀倉)是a building, or a strong room一種建築物,或是一個堅固的房間where people keep grain用來存放穀物的after the harvest收成後wheat most of all主要是小麥but also barley, oats, and the like但也包括大麥、燕麥之類的The grain is stored dry穀物要存放在乾燥的地方up off the wet ground離潮濕地面高一點so it will last and not rot這樣才能耐久不腐爛
In older farm country the granary often stood on mushroom-shaped stones so mice could not climb in.
In older farm country在早期的農村the granary often stood on穀倉常常蓋在mushroom-shaped stones蘑菇形狀的石頭上so mice could not climb in這樣老鼠就爬不進去
You will meet the word in history and farming, and sometimes as a picture: a place may be called “the granary of” a region if it grows a lot of wheat for everyone else.
You will meet the word你會遇到這個字in history and farming在歷史和農業裡and sometimes as a picture有時候也用來當作比喻a place may be called一個地方可能會被稱作"the granary of" a region某地區的「穀倉」if it grows a lot of wheat如果它種了大量小麥for everyone else給其他人
It is a slightly old, word for a very practical thing; a farmer today might just say grain store. A silo is usually a tall tank, not the same shape.
It is a slightly old, bookish word這是一個有點老派、書卷氣的字for a very practical thing指的其實是很實際的東西a farmer today might just say現在的農夫可能就只說grain storegrain storeA silo issilo 通常是usually a tall tank一個高高的桶狀建築not the same shape形狀不一樣
It has nothing to do with granny.
It has nothing to do with它跟grannygranny(奶奶)一點關係都沒有
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granarynoun/ˈɡɹan(ə)ɹi/
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agriculturebusinesslifestyleA storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
- For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
- [I]solate the body of the building from the ground […] embodied in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century granaries, built on staddle stones, which still survive in many English farmyards.
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A fertile, grain-growing region.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。