send bush

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词形变化

sends bush 三单 sending bush 现在分词 sent bush 过去式 sent bush 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To send away into the bush (etymology 3)

    澳大利亚 及物

    Faced with famine, he armed the best shots among his convicts and sent them bush to hunt kangaroos and emus. He thus started a menace that plagued the colony for years, for, when supplies were adequate, the kangaroo hunters refused to resume their servitude in town.

    The mustering teams consisted of about twenty men. They were sent bush for up to six months, forbidden to return to the precincts of the homestead unless summoned.