核心畫面

You can picture one stretch of ground: grass underfoot, big trees standing well apart instead of crowding together, and open sky in the spaces between them. It is not a forest, because you can see through it and walk across it. It is not a bare field, because the trees are there. Every use of parkland comes back to that same picture; what changes is who the land belongs to and how it got that way.

可以想成一片攤開的地:腳下是草,上面站著幾棵大樹,而且樹跟樹隔得很開,不是擠成一片。看得到天空,也走得過去,所以它不更多收起可以想成一片攤開的地:腳下是草,上面站著幾棵大樹,而且樹跟樹隔得很開,不是擠成一片。看得到天空,也走得過去,所以它不是樹林;但又有樹,所以也不是光禿禿的空地。parkland 的每個用法都回到這張圖,差別只在這片地是誰的、又是怎麼變成這樣的。

From the word’s history

The word is put together from park and land, so its literal shape is land of the park kind.

這個字由 park(公園、圈起來的園地)加 land(土地)組成,字面就是「公園那一類的地」——說的是土地的樣子,而不是某一座有名字的公園。

Wiktionary entry for parkland (packet evidence kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1623893694): From park + land.

Two branches

給人用的草木地

這一組的地都跟人有關:有人決定把它留成草配樹的樣子,再決定誰可以走進去。

noun · B2

Open ground covered with grass and with trees standing apart from each other, kept as a park so that people can walk in it, sit in it, and enjoy it.

公園綠地

自然長成的疏林草原

這一組沒有人插手:同樣是樹叢配草地的畫面,但它是自然長成的,於是地理學拿這個現成的詞來當地貌名稱。這是用法上的借用,不代表這個意思比別的意思更早出現。

noun · C1

A type of country, named in Canada and the United States, where groups of trees and open grassland mix together, so neither the forest nor the grass covers everything.

疏林草原