词汇精选：pasture的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

牧场，草地，牧草

例句：

The bull bellowed in the pasture.

牧场的公牛吼叫。

例句：

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

一群羊走遍了山坡找寻牧草。

牲畜饲养，放牧

例句：

That's because pasture grazing is inherently inefficient.

这是因为牧场放牧效率不高。

v.

放牧；吃草 [I,T]

例句：

It is a good place for goats to pasture.

这是羊吃草的好地方。

例句：

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

在放牧季节，所有的牲畜都可享用牧草。

二、词义辨析：

lawn,meadow,pasture

这些名词均含“草地”之意。lawn多指公园、庭院中经常加以修剪的草坪。meadow指为牲畜提供食用草，可以贮备干草的牧草地；也指野外的低草地。pasture通常指放牧用的草地或牧草。

三、参考例句：

We have put our cattle out to pasture.

我们已经把牛放到牧场上吃草去了。

That's because pasture grazing is inherently inefficient.

这是因为牧场放牧效率不高。

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

现在干草型牧草是不合适宜的。

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

这是两年生植物，也是我们最有用的牧草之一。

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

在放牧季节，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.

这块草地再也不能供养那么多牛羊了。

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

这是片古老的牧场，给兔子啃得七零八落，一条踏出的小径横穿其中，这里那里尽是鼹鼠拱出的小丘。

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

这相当于17亿吨一年，数量之大足以覆盖110 000平方公里的牧场（半个维多利亚州的面积）。