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Land covered in grass where farm animals like cows, sheep, and horses are kept to graze. As a verb, "to pasture" animals means to put them out in a field to feed. The phrase "put out to pasture" is often used, sometimes half-joking, for a person who has retired or been pushed out of a job because they're seen as too old.
牧草地、放牧場
組成from Latin pastura, related to pascere, to feed or graze.
同家族的字
- pastorboth come from the Latin pascere, to feed or shepherd — a pastor was originally a 'shepherd' of people
原始詞典資料6 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。
pasturenoun/ˈpɑːst͡ʃə/
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Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
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Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
- He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
- So graze as you find pasture.
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obsoleteFood, nourishment.
- Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […].
- It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.
pastureverb/ˈpɑːst͡ʃə/
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To move animals into a pasture.
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To graze.
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To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
- The farmer pastures fifty oxen.
- The land will pasture forty cows.
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。