prairie
prairie 英 [ˈpreəri] 美 [ˈpreri]
n. 大草原；牧场
名词复数:prairies
- A prairie is a plain of grassy land without many trees. If you're raising cattle, find some prairie land to let them roam around on.
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- n. 大草原；牧场
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1. A cowboy fell off his horse and broke his leg on the prairie.
一个牛仔在大草原上从马背上摔了下来，摔断了腿。
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2. To assemble a prairie takes time -- even if you have all the pieces.
整合一个大草原需要时间——哪怕你手中已掌握了所有分块。
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3. I grew up in Chicago, a city that now feels to me like an experiment, a cyclopean model train set scattered just the other day across the prairie.
我在芝加哥长大，我现在觉得那座城市就像一项实验，一组不久前还散落在中西部大平原上的巨型火车模型。
- prairie (n.) tract of level or undulating grassland in North America, by 1773, from French prairie "meadow, grassland," from Old French praerie "meadow, pastureland" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *prataria, from Latin pratum "meadow," originally "a hollow." The word existed in Middle English as prayere, but was lost and reborrowed to describe the American plains. Prairie dog is attested from 1774; prairie schooner "immigrant's wagon" is from 1841. Illinois has been the Prairie State at least since 1861. In Latin, Neptunia prata was poetic for "the sea."
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