1. 1牧草地;放牧(偏書面;口語多說牧場、草地)

    Pasturage is a rather formal, slightly old word for pasture: grass land where cows or sheep eat, the grass itself, or sometimes the right to put animals there to feed. You meet it in farming history, in law, and in older books — “summer pasturage in the hills.” In a shop or a classroom, people will understand you, but they themselves will say pasture or grazing land. It is not wrong; it is just dressed up. Though actually, the tidy dictionary line “pasture” hides a small extra use: pasturage can mean the feeding rights, not only the field.

組成From Middle French pasturage (modern French pâturage). By surface analysis, pasture + -age (a noun-making ending: the land, the grass, or the activity of grazing).

同家族的字

  • pasturethe same French/Latin grazing-land stem; pasturage is pasture plus the noun ending -age
  • pastoralsame Latin pastor/pasture family: of shepherds and grazing land

原始詞典資料3 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。

pasturagenoun

  • 1

    A pasture; land that is used for pasture.

  • 2

    The grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock and found in a pasture.

  • 3

    The right to graze livestock on a pasture.

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