turf
n. 草皮, 泥炭, 跑马场 vt. 覆草皮于
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教材释义与例句
草皮；泥炭；跑马场
覆草皮于
释义与例句
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A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
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A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
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A block of peat used as fuel.
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A thick, carpet-like bed of algae.
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A surface of synthetic fibers made to look like grass; artificial turf.
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A territory claimed by a gang as their own.
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A person's domain or sphere of influence.
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A racetrack, hippodrome.
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The sport of racing horses.
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To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
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To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
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To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
商务Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.
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To cancel a project or product.
商务The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.
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To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
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To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
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From Middle English turf, torf, from Old English turf (“turf, sod, soil, piece of grass-covered earth, greensward”), from Proto-West Germanic *turb (“turf, peat”), from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf, lawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *derbʰ- (“tuft, grass”). Cognates Cognate with Scots turr, truff (“turf, peat”), Dutch turf (“turf”), Middle Low German torf (“peat, turf”) (whence German Torf and German Low German Torf), Danish tørv (“peat”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish torv (“turf”), Norn *torv (“peat”), French tourbe (“peat”), Finnish turve (“turf”), Lithuanian darbas (“bunch of leaves”), durpės (“peat”), Sanskrit दर्भ (darbhá, “a type of grass”), दूर्वा (dū́rvā, “bent grass”). Not cognate with Danish torv (“square, market, marketplace”), which is instead inherited from Old Norse torg (“marketplace”), from Old East Slavic търгъ (tŭrgŭ, “trade, trading, commerce, trade square”), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *tъ̑rgъ (“merchandise, commodity, wares”).
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