lawn

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復(fù)數(shù):?lawns;

lawn 草坪，草地

來自古英語laune,詞源同land,荒野，土地。后該詞用來指荒野，雜草地，現(xiàn)指草坪，草地。

lawn: lawn: English has two words lawn. ‘Grassy area’ [16] is ultimately the same word as land. It is an alteration of an earlier laund ‘glade’, which came from Old French launde ‘heath’, a borrowing from the same prehistoric Germanic source as produced English land. Lawn was originally used for ‘glade’ too, and it was not until the 18th century that its present-day meaning emerged. Lawn ‘fine linen or cotton’ [15] probably comes from Laon, the name of a town in northern France where linen was formerly manufactured.
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lawn (n.1): "turf, stretch of grass," 1540s, laune "glade, open space between woods," from Middle English launde (c. 1300), from Old French lande "heath, moor, barren land; clearing" (12c.), from Gaulish (compare Breton lann "heath"), or from its Germanic cognate, source of English land (n.). The -d perhaps mistaken for an affix and dropped. Sense of "grassy ground kept mowed" first recorded 1733.
lawn (n.2): "thin linen or cotton cloth," early 15c., probably from Laon, city in northern France, a center of linen manufacture. The town name is Old French Lan, from Latin Laudunum, of Celtic origin.

1. The windows overlooked a lawn of tall waving grass.: 窗戶外邊是一塊草地，高高的草隨風(fēng)搖擺。

2. He remembered mowing the lawn, lounging around the swimming pool.: 他還記得修剪草坪、在泳池邊閑蕩的情景。

4. He continued to mow the lawn and do other routine chores.: 他繼續(xù)剪草坪，并做些其他日常雜務(wù)。

5. The Lawn Tennis Association suspended Mr Castle from the British team.: 草地網(wǎng)球協(xié)會(huì)暫停了卡斯?fàn)栂壬谟?duì)的職務(wù)。