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    Moorland is wild, open country, usually up in the hills, covered with rough grass, heather, and low bushes, and almost no trees. You walk and the wind hits you; the ground can be springy or a bit wet, but it is not a swamp and it is not a farm.

    Moorland is wild, open country, usually up in the hillsmoorland是一種荒野、開闊的地形,通常在山丘上 covered with rough grass, heather, and low bushes, and almost no trees長滿了粗糙的野草、石楠、和低矮灌木,幾乎沒有樹 You walk and the wind hits you你走在上面,風會直接吹過來 the ground can be springy or a bit wet地面可能有彈性、也可能有點濕 but it is not a swamp and it is not a farm但它不是沼澤,也不是農地

    Britain has a lot of it — the Yorkshire moors, Dartmoor, bits of Scotland — and when British people say they are going on the moors, this is the picture: empty, a little lonely, sheep maybe, but not a park.

    Britain has a lot of it英國有很多這種地形 the Yorkshire moors, Dartmoor, bits of Scotland像是Yorkshire moors、Dartmoor、還有蘇格蘭的一些地方 when British people say they are going on the moors, this is the picture英國人說要去「the moors」時,腦中浮現的畫面就是這樣 empty, a little lonely, sheep maybe, but not a park空曠、有點孤單、也許有羊,但絕對不是公園

    People use moor and moorland for the same kind of place; moorland just makes it clear you mean the stretch of land itself.

    People use moor and moorland for the same kind of place大家用moor和moorland來指同一種地方 moorland just makes it clear you mean the stretch of land itselfmoorland只是更明確地表示你講的是那片土地本身

    Though actually, a heath is a cousin of this idea, often a bit drier and lower, and a bog is wetter than you want to walk. It is a landscape word, not a thing you can pick up.

    Though actually, a heath is a cousin of this idea, often a bit drier and lower不過heath跟這個概念很像,通常比較乾、地勢也比較低 and a bog is wetter than you want to walk而bog則濕到你不會想走進去 It is a landscape word, not a thing you can pick up這是個描述地形的字,不是可以拿在手上的東西

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成A compound: moor + land. From Middle English morelond. Moor is that wild, rough upland; land is the land. Old Norse had a close match, mýrlendi, with the same shape of meaning.

同家族的字

  • moorthe wild upland in the compound
  • landthe land in the compound

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

Moorlandname

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    A locality in the MidCoast council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

moorlandnoun

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    Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.

    • The completely-industrialised outskirts of Newcastle gradually give place to rural surroundings, and the Tyne becomes a moorland river with a boulder-strewn bed.
    • Troutbeck station, 10 miles from Keswick, in the heart of wild moorland, is the most isolated on the line.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。