dude ranch

短语

n. （美国西部供游客进行骑马等活动的）度假牧场

词形变化

dude ranches 复数 dude ranches

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of guest ranch.

    1956, P. G. Wodehouse, 'French Leave', Barrie & Jenkins, London: 1974, p 125. ...I didn't get on very well with my stepmother, so I cleared off and went to America. I was there several years, doing various jobs. I was on the waterfront for a time, and I worked on a dude ranch and went prospecting with a friend of mine in the Mojave desert and ... oh, lots of things. When the war broke out, I was a waiter at a New York hotel.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

resort

词源

From dude (“a tourist, a dandy”) + ranch. First use appears c. 1899, in the Bismarck Tribune.

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