| 单词 | high countryman |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh countryman high countryman n. a (male) native or inhabitant of high country; (New Zealand) a man working or living on a high-country farm. ΚΠ 1678 T. Jones Of Heart & Soveraign 547 High-Countrey-men, upon the River Dee, North-Wales being more high and Mountainous than South-Wales. 1861 C. Lawson Brit. & Native Cochin (ed. 2) iv. 56 Climatic influences..have served also to make the high-country man more vigorous and self-reliant than the inhabitant of the plain. 1922 C. G. Turner Happy Wanderer 51 The high-countryman may drink his cheque. 1989 A. Campbell Frigate Bird 112 Tell me of a high-countryman who's not attached to his bit of rock. 2001 M. R. Castaneda Magical Journey with C. Castaneda i. 39 He had the look of a high countryman, short but slim with an ample chest. < as lemmas |
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