steppe

FREQ #29964

n. 大草原

发音

UK /stɛp/
US /stɛp/

词形变化

steppes 复数 steppes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia.

    草原

    干草原

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A vast, cold, dry, grassy plain.

    可数 不可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

field plain champaign

相关短语

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词源

From German Steppe or French steppe, in turn from Russian степь (stepʹ, “flat grassy plain”). There is no generally accepted earlier etymology, but there is a speculative Old East Slavic reconstruction *сътепь (sŭtepĭ, “trampled place, flat, bare”), related to топот (topot), топтать (toptatĭ).

来源：wiktionary