plantation
plantation 英 [plɑ:nˈteɪʃn] 美 [plænˈteɪʃn]
n. 栽植；殖民；大农场 adj. 适用于种植园或热带、亚热带国家的
名词复数:plantations
- A plantation is a large agricultural property dedicated to planting a few crops on a large scale. If you dream of having 3,000 acres to raise cucumbers on, then you have dreams of a cucumber plantation.
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- n. 栽植；殖民；大农场
- adj. 适用于种植园或热带、亚热带国家的
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1. They also own about 40 hectares of coffee plantation.
同时，他们也拥有约40公顷的咖啡种植园。
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2. It had never occurred to him that only one voice was obeyed on the plantation—the soft voice of his wife Ellen.
他从来不曾想到过，在这个农场里人人都服从的只有一个声音，那就是太太爱伦的柔和的声音。
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3. Today, guests claim to see her wandering the plantation in her green turban and have awoken to see her face staring at them from beside the bed.
如今，住客们声称见到她戴着她那条绿色的头巾在农庄里徘徊，并曾经醒来看到她的脸就在床边盯着他们看。
- plantation (n.) mid-15c., "action of planting," from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantationem (nominative plantatio) "a planting," noun of action from past participle stem of plantare "to plant" (see plant (n.)). Historically used for "colony, settlement in a new land" (1610s); meaning "large farm on which tobacco or cotton is grown" is first recorded 1706.
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