lawn
lawn 英 [lɔ:n] 美 [lɔn]
n. 草地；草坪
名词复数:lawns
- A lawn is an area of ground that's planted with grass. Your next-door neighbor might be so overly proud of his tidy lawn that he stands on it, glaring at the dandelions growing in yours.
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- n. 草地；草坪
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1. He busied himself in the lawn.
他忙于在草坪上干活。
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2. They planted roses round the lawn.
他们在草坪四周种了些玫瑰。
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3. In summer we have to mow the lawn twice a week.
夏天我们每周得修剪草坪两次。
- lawn (n.1) "turf, stretch of grass," 1540s, laune "glade, open space in a forest or between woods," from Middle English launde (c. 1300), from Old French lande "heath, moor, barren land; clearing" (12c.), from Gaulish (compare Breton lann "heath"), or from a cognate Germanic word, from Proto-Germanic *landam-, source of English land (n.). The -d perhaps was mistaken for an affix and dropped. Sense of "grassy ground kept mowed" first recorded 1733. Lawn-tennis is from 1884.
- lawn (n.2) "thin linen or cotton cloth," early 15c., probably from Laon, city in northern France, a center of linen manufacture. The town name is Old French Lan, from Latin Laudunum, of Celtic origin. For form evolution, compare fawn (n.) from faon. Lawn sleeves (1630s) were emblematic of Anglican bishops.
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