moor
n.荒野;旷野 Moor: 摩尔人. v.系住;停泊
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教材释义与例句
沼泽;荒野
系住;使停泊
释义与例句
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1.
An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
荒泽
荒地
A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
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2.
A game preserve consisting of moorland.
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1.
To cast anchor or become fastened.
系泊
泊
停泊
不及物 航海 交通The vessel moored in the stream.
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2.
To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
抛碇
及物 航海 交通They moored the boat to the wharf.
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3.
To secure or fix firmly.
及物
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词源
From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.
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