- 1蒙古包（中亞遊牧民族的圓形帳篷；露營區的圓頂帳也叫這個）
A yurt is a round tent used by nomads in Central Asia — in , Kazakhstan, and nearby. Nomads are people who move from place to place with their animals instead of living in one fixed home, so their house has to travel too. A yurt is built for exactly that: a light wooden lattice frame that folds like a concertina, long rising to a wheel at the top, and thick felt made from sheep's wool wrapped around the outside. A family can take it down in an hour, load it onto animals or a truck, and put it up again somewhere else. Inside there is a stove in the middle with a chimney going out through the roof opening, and it is genuinely warm in a hard winter.
One thing to know before you use the word with people from the region: in the local word is ger, and many prefer it, because "yurt" reached English through Russian rather than from them.
The word has a second life now. In Britain, America, and Taiwan too, yurt has become a holiday word — and resorts put up yurt-shaped tents with real beds inside and rent them to city people for the weekend. So in a modern English sentence, "we stayed in a yurt" almost never means a family's home; it means a nice weekend in the countryside. Both meanings are alive, and the context tells you which.
組成Borrowed into English from French yourte or German Jurte, which took it from Russian юрта (júrta). The Russian came from a Turkic language, going back to Proto-Turkic *yūrt — which meant "dwelling place," and in some uses "one's native land." So the root idea is not "tent" but "the place where you live."
原始詞典資料2 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。
yurtnoun詞源 1/jɜːt/
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A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger).
- [T]heir [the Nogais'] cattle grazed on the Little Injik, only seven versts from the boundary line. In summer they kept them in the Black Mountains, and in winter at their auls. They lived in felt yurts, and often changed their place of abode.
- Gervasius and Borodijin rode on to reconnoitre. As my caravan entered the strip of pasture fringing the shore I saw my people in conversation with Sarts by a yurt at the north-east corner of the lake. They soon returned with the information that the whole neighbourhood, which included Kala Otlak and Bulag Bashi, was known as Dakherukta. There was no tura, but two or three miles off to the west there lived a wealthy Sart who was at the moment away from home attending a wedding at some friends of his. The festivities were taking place on the farther side of the northern mountains.
yurtnoun詞源 2/jɜːt/
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historicalThe natural resources and arable land over which a Cossack stanitsa had exclusive control in their territory.
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