詞彙精選：pasture的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

n.

牧場，草地，牧草

例句：

The bull bellowed in the pasture.

牧場的公牛吼叫。

例句：

A flock of sheep ranged over the mountain slope in search of pasture.

一羣羊走遍了山坡找尋牧草。

牲畜飼養，放牧

例句：

That's because pasture grazing is inherently inefficient.

這是因爲牧場放牧效率不高。

v.

放牧；吃草 [I,T]

例句：

It is a good place for goats to pasture.

這是羊吃草的好地方。

例句：

All stock should have access to pasture during the grazing season.

在放牧季節，所有的牲畜都可享用牧草。

二、詞義辨析：

lawn,meadow,pasture

這些名詞均含“草地”之意。lawn多指公園、庭院中經常加以修剪的草坪。meadow指爲牲畜提供食用草，可以貯備乾草的牧草地；也指野外的低草地。pasture通常指放牧用的草地或牧草。

三、參考例句：

We have put our cattle out to pasture.

我們已經把牛放到牧場上吃草去了。

That's because pasture grazing is inherently inefficient.

這是因爲牧場放牧效率不高。

Today a hay type of pasture plant is really an anachronism.

現在乾草型牧草是不合適宜的。

This is a biennial, and one of the most useful pasture plants we have.

這是兩年生植物，也是我們最有用的牧草之一。

All stock should have access to pasture during the grazing season.

在放牧季節，所有的牲畜都可享用牧草。

This pasture can no longer carry such a large number of cattle and sheep.

這塊草地再也不能供養那麼多牛羊了。

It was an old, rabbit-bitten pasture, with a foot-track wandering across it and a molehill here and there

這是片古老的牧場，給兔子啃得七零八落，一條踏出的小徑橫穿其中，這裏那裏盡是鼴鼠拱出的小丘。

This amounts to 1.7 billion tons a year, enough to smother about 110 000 sq km of pasture, half the area of Victoria.

這相當於17億噸一年，數量之大足以覆蓋110 000平方公里的牧場（半個維多利亞州的面積）。