| 单词 | big country |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBig Country Big Country n. (also with lower-case initials) chiefly U.S. and Australian (frequently with the) a vast, sparsely populated expanse of open land. ΚΠ 1890 J. S. Farmer Slang I. 189/1 Big country.., the open country. 1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) 65 I've come back to the Big Country, where the pay is poor and the work is hard and the comfort small, but where a man and his soul meet their Maker face to face. 1970 R. Beilby No Medals for Aphrodite 39 A couple of ecstatically free-booting seasons with shearing teams in the Nor'-west, the ‘Big Country’. 2003 Alaska Sept. 31 This is Big Country, Alaska-style, a place that shrinks the human ego. < as lemmas |
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