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lawn

noun
 
🔊/lɔːn/
🔊/lɔːn/
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  1.  
    [countable] an area of ground covered in short grass in a garden or park, or used for playing a game on草坪；草地
    • In summer we have to mow the lawn twice a week.夏天我们每周得修剪草坪两次。🔊🔊
    • The hotel boasts two tennis courts and a croquet lawn.那家酒店拥有两个网球场和一个槌球草坪。
    • They served afternoon tea on the lawn (= a large area of grass, near a big house, for example).他们在草坪上提供下午茶。
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    • The cottage sits on a hill above a sweep of lawn.村舍坐落在小山上，下面是一片连绵的草地。
    • The lawn really needs mowing.草坪真需要修剪了。
    • a carefully tended lawn经仔细护理的草坪
    • the correct way to maintain a lawn维护草坪的正确方法
    • They walked across the lawn towards the river.他们穿过草坪朝河边走去。
    Topics Gardensc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • manicured
    • neat
    • well-tended
    • …
    verb + lawn
    • cut
    • mow
    • trim
    • …
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  2. [uncountable] a type of fine cotton or linen cloth used for making clothes 上等细棉布（或麻布）
    3. Word Originsense 1 mid 16th cent.: alteration of dialect laund ‘glade, pasture’, from Old French launde ‘wooded district, heath’, of Celtic origin. The current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.sense 2 Middle English: probably from Laon, the name of a city in France important for linen manufacture.