英语词汇“canal estate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

canal estate n. (a) (chiefly South Asian) a property, typically with a house, irrigated by a canal; (b) (chiefly Australian and U.S.) a housing development built along the edge of a canal, chiefly as a result of dredging of wetland.

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1844 Colonial Gaz. 14 Dec. 772/2 [The fire] appears to have reached the back of the canal estates on Sunday last.

1887 W. W. Hunter Imperial Gazetteer India (ed. 2) XII. 75 The people..strive to get a few acres of canal land to cultivate in years of drought; and so great is the burden of this to the dwellers in canal estates, that they will not marry their daughters into rain-land villages.

1941 Allahabad Farmer Mar. 68 [Buffaloes] are therefore found in large numbers in villages where rain water collects, in the canal estates, and along rivers and streams.

1974 Soil & Water June 28/1 Canal estates provide a form of waterfront living carefully worked out to suit Australian needs.

1990 I. Douglas in B. L. Turner et al. Earth Transformed by Human Action (1993) xiii. 223/1 Many immigrants within Australia and the United States move from temperate cities to subtropical coastal canal estates.

2015 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 4 July 6 The modern two-storey house..sits on one of the largest blocks in the canal estate.

单词	canal estate
释义	> as lemmas canal estate canal estate n. (a) (chiefly South Asian) a property, typically with a house, irrigated by a canal; (b) (chiefly Australian and U.S.) a housing development built along the edge of a canal, chiefly as a result of dredging of wetland. ΚΠ 1844 Colonial Gaz. 14 Dec. 772/2 [The fire] appears to have reached the back of the canal estates on Sunday last. 1887 W. W. Hunter Imperial Gazetteer India (ed. 2) XII. 75 The people..strive to get a few acres of canal land to cultivate in years of drought; and so great is the burden of this to the dwellers in canal estates, that they will not marry their daughters into rain-land villages. 1941 Allahabad Farmer Mar. 68 [Buffaloes] are therefore found in large numbers in villages where rain water collects, in the canal estates, and along rivers and streams. 1974 Soil & Water June 28/1 Canal estates provide a form of waterfront living carefully worked out to suit Australian needs. 1990 I. Douglas in B. L. Turner et al. Earth Transformed by Human Action (1993) xiii. 223/1 Many immigrants within Australia and the United States move from temperate cities to subtropical coastal canal estates. 2015 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 4 July 6 The modern two-storey house..sits on one of the largest blocks in the canal estate. extracted from canaln. < as lemmas
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