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单词 steppe
释义
steppesteppe /step/ noun [countable, uncountable] (also the steppes [plural]) Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsteppe
Origin:
1600-1700 Russian step
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Farmland, especially among growing crops, open grassland, steppes, semi-deserts.
  • Galloping horses, endless deserts and grassland steppes.
  • In 376, however, the Visigoths found themselves under extreme pressure from the Huns, an Asiatic people from the steppes.
  • In the steppes and the Caucasus they knew the dead could rise again, and how they could be stopped.
  • Saltcoats was made up of lumpy steppe.
  • Their linguistic legacy is still to be found in the major river valleys of the steppe and forest-steppe.
  • They settled the steppes so successfully that their numbers grew to forty-five thousand in less than a century.
  • Wheat descends from three grasses that hybridized on the Anatolian steppes.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 He stepped aside to let Katherine go in first.
a large area of land without trees, especially in Russia, Asia, and eastern Europe
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