单词 | rice field |
释义 | > as lemmasrice field rice field n. ΚΠ 1671 J. Ogilby tr. O. Dapper et al. Atlas Chinensis 20 They saw their prodigious increase, utterly destroying their Sugar and Rice Fields every where. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 199 A rice field produces a much greater quantity of food than the most fertile corn field. View more context for this quotation 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1937/1 The watered rice-fields of ‘the East’. 1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove xx. 129 In the rice fields of India plod the water buffalo, subdued to the will of the children that tend them. 2001 Sun 27 Jan. (TV Mag.) 29/3 Six teenagers take working holidays. Tonight, they work in a Chinese rice field. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。