paddock
paddock 英 [ˈpædək] 美 [ˈpædək]
n. 围场；小牧场
名词复数:paddocks
- A paddock is an area that holds racehorses before a race. Jockeys get the horses ready to go in the paddock.
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- n. 围场；小牧场
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1. They make the most formidable combination in the paddock.
他们要成为围场内最强大的组合！
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2. The floor of Goat paddock Crater is covered by sediments deposited since the Pleistocene Epoch.
山羊围场陨石坑的地面覆盖着自更新世以来的沉积物。
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3. But on the third morning after his arrival in Hertfordshire, she saw him, from her dressing-room window, enter the paddock and ride towards the house.
幸亏他来到哈福德郡的第三天，班纳特太太便从化妆室的窗口看见他骑着马走进围场，朝她家里走来。
- paddock (n.1) "a frog, a toad," c. 1300, diminutive of pad "toad," from Old Norse padda; common Germanic (Swedish padda, Danish padde, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch padde "frog, toad," also Dutch schildpad "tortoise"), of unknown origin and with no certain cognates outside Germanic.
- paddock (n.2) "an enclosure," 1620s, alteration of Middle English parrock, from Old English pearroc "enclosed space, fence" (see park (n.)). Or possibly from Medieval Latin parricus (8c.), which ultimately is from Germanic.
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