acre

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n. 英亩

发音

UK /ˈeɪ.kə/
US /ˈeɪ.kɚ/

词形变化

acres 复数 acres

别名

ac ac. acher acker acer aker a.

教材释义与例句

名词

土地，地产；英亩

a unit for measuring area, equal to 4,840 square yards or 4,047 square metres

They own 200 acres of farmland.

他们拥有200英亩农田。

a 200-acre wood

一片200英亩的林地

释义与例句

n. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.

  2. 2.

    An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.

    An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.

    历史
  3. 3.

    Any of various similar units of area in other systems.

  4. 4.

    A wide expanse.

    非正式

    I like my new house—there’s acres of space!

  5. 5.

    A large quantity.

    非正式
  6. 6.

    A field.

    废旧
  7. 7.

    The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m).

    废旧
  8. 8.

    A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.

    废旧

相关短语

Acre antshrike acre foot acre feet Acre antshrikes acre breadth acre breadths acre's breadth US survey acre all over hell's half acre international acre God's acre (尤指教堂的)墓地 Irish acre starve acre stave acre plantation acre

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros Proto-Germanic *akraz Proto-West Germanic *akr Old English æcer Middle English aker English acre From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Doublet of agriculture. Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra, “field, plain”).

来源：wiktionary