soil cultivated land wetland greensward 3. land verb. ['ˈlænd'] reach or come to rest. Synonyms alight belly-land beach port disembark debark arrive undershoot set down light perch get touch down come force-land 4...
aresearch completed in 1982 found that in the United States soil erosion could be reduced by converting cultivated land to meadow or forest 在1982完成的研究发现了那在美国土壤侵蚀能被转换耕种的土地减少成草甸或森林[translate] aith common ground refrence connect c with e ith共同基础refrence用e连接c...
Newcombe was a retired oysterman (his sons took over his business), though he still cultivated a large garden of a half-acre. Thoreau reports how the old man sat by the fire chewing tobacco and chatting non-stop, while his wife prepared breakfast. He kept spitting the tobacco juice toward...
Oncepuisnechanged its English spelling to puny (apparently in the sixteenth century), it took on a disparaging meaning. It will also perhaps not come as a surprise that according to Warrack’sScots Dialect Dictionary(although none of the other Scots dictionaries I’ve consulted) one word for p...
One day last week I opened the kitchen door and was overwhelmed by the sweet scent of roses. I knew none of my cultivated roses were blooming yet and literally looked further afield for the source. Our horse pasture has become a lovely collection of wildflowers! The metal frame that held...
Like their fellow devotees stationed in the thughûr, the Ifrîqiyan sentinels of Islam cultivated a feeling of pious scrupulosity towards the lure of power and a similar partial rejection of state authority: biographical texts highlight their reluctance to mix with the ruling elite, even ...
things to different people, but for me, it meant that I was lost as to the meaning of life, as to what my purpose was, and as to who I was meant to be. Like most people in that condition, I would not have used the word “lost” to describe myself, but clearly that was the ...
On a clear African morning, Hayes stood amid cultivated gardens beneath young palm trees gazing across the well-cleared shores to the Azande country on the other side of the Welle River listening to the incessant talking of the drums. “They have a drum system as good as telegraph, sending ...
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