单词 | olive grove |
释义 | > as lemmasolive grove olive grove n. ΚΠ 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Azebuchal An oliue groue, Oleastrum. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Amos iv. 9 Your oliue groues, & figgroues the eruke hath eaten. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 241 See there the Olive Grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic Bird Trills her thick-warbl'd notes the summer long. View more context for this quotation a1770 A. Hervey Jrnl. (1953) (modernized text) 55 The vineyards and olive groves..were totally demolished. 1774 W. H. Roberts Judah Restored vi. 102 Thro olive groves, Thro vineyards, and soft pastures, on they march. 1878 O. Wilde Ravenna 6 Dark olive-groves and noble forest-pines. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage cxvii. 618 Conditions which needed only a blue sky to be as idyllic as the olive groves of Arcady. 1994 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 Nov. 62/3 Husaid was shown going stagily through some training exercises, running and skulking and crawling about in an olive grove. 2000 T. G. Mitchell Native vs. Settler 172 A 69-year-old Palestinian man was found slain in his olive grove outside the Jewish settlement of Itamar near Nablus. < as lemmas |
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