pasture
n. 牧场,牧草地;
v. 放牧
Pasture is land with grass growing on it for farm animals to eat.
The cows are out now, grazing in the pasture.
牛现在已经放出去了,正在牧场上吃草。
...mountain pastures.
高山牧场
If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
Michael decided he wanted to move on to pastures new for financial reasons.
出于经济原因,迈克尔决意去寻找更好的前程。
...nurses seeking greener pastures overseas.
到国外寻求更好前程的护士们
If you put animals out to pasture, you move them out into the fields so they can eat the grass.
If you say that someone is being put out to pasture, you mean they are no longer being employed because they are considered to be too old or no longer useful.
I'm retiring next month. They're putting me out to pasture.
我下个月退休。他们要我养老去了。
1. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
2. animal food for browsing or grazing
1. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
2. feed as in a meadow or pasture;
lawn, meadow, pasture
这些名词均含"草地"之意。
put someone out to pasture
使退休,使离职
put out to pasture
放牧:把(草食动物)赶到作牧场的土地上去放牧
【非正式用语】 退休,离休:从工作或满工作量中退下或迫使退下
If pasture lands are limited, sometimes two use ewes and a cow can be placed together.
如果牧场是有限的, 那么两只母羊和一只母牛可以放在一起.
These lands afford good pasture.
这些地方有好的牧草.
It's about time this old sewing machine was put out to pasture.
这部旧缝纫机大概到了被淘汰的时候了.
There we saw herds of cows grazing on the pasture.
我们在那里看到一群群的牛在草地上吃草.
Effects of 14 herbicides were studied in alfalfa ( Medicago sativa ) pasture.
选用14种除草剂对沧州地区苜蓿 ( Medicagosativa ) 地苗期的杂草进行了防除试验.