| 单词 | the levels |
| 释义 | > as lemmasThe Levels 6. A level tract of land; a stretch of country approximately horizontal and unbroken by elevations: applied spec. (as a proper name) to certain large expanses of level country, e.g. Bedford Level or the Great Level in the fen district of England; The Levels (formerly The Level), the tract including Hatfield Chase in Yorkshire. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain fieldeOE wong971 field landOE woldc1220 flat1296 plainc1325 field placec1384 champaign?a1400 floor?a1400 smeethc1440 plain-land1487 weald1544 champian1589 camp1605 level1623 campaign1628 planure1632 campania1663 esplanade1681 flatland1735 vlakte1785 steppe1837 1623 E. Wynne in R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land 109 Our high leuels of land are adorned with Woods. 1642 C. Vermuyden Disc. Drayning Great Fennes 4 The Levell lyeth in sixe Counties. 1661 N. N. (title) A Narrative of all the Proceedings in the Draining of the Great Level of the Fens, Extending into the Counties of Northampton, Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, and Huntingdon; and the Isle of Ely. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 253 Such Tombs as we met with at Bonaru Level. 1751 J. Bartram Observ. Trav. from Pensilvania 64 We..crossed a run and rode along a rich level for several miles. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 284 The levels of Hatfield-Chace, in Yorkshire. 1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 138/1 Bedford Level..is divided into three parts, which are distinguished as the North, the Middle, and the South Levels. 1841 J. C. Booth Mem. Geol. Surv. Maryland 89 The beautiful tract of land..appropriately called the Levels. 1859 All Year Round 10 Dec. 162 In one level alone, fifteen thousand sheep were drowned. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 222 The great saltbush levels of the interior. < as lemmas |
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