英语单词

landscape是什么意思

landscape

英 ['læn(d)skeɪp] 美 ['lænd'skep]
  • n. 风景;风景画;景色;山水画;乡村风景画;地形
  • vt. 对…做景观美化,给…做园林美化;从事庭园设计
  • vi. 美化(环境等),使景色宜人;从事景观美化工作,做庭园设计师

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1. scape 的同源词:scepter, shaft.
2. scepter: from Old French sceptre, from Latin sceptrum, from Greek skeptron "staff," from root of skeptesthai "to prop oneself." Cognate with Old English sceaft (see shaft).

中文词源


landscape 陆地风景,乡村风景

land,陆地,-scape,形状,状况,词源同shape.原用于绘画术语指自然风景画,后来由该词衍生后缀-scape,表示风景。

英文词源


landscape (n.)
c. 1600, "painting representing natural scenery," from Dutch landschap, from Middle Dutch landscap "region," from land "land" (see land) + -scap "-ship, condition" (see -ship). Originally introduced as a painters' term. Old English had cognate landscipe, and compare similarly formed Old High German lantscaf, German Landschaft, Old Norse landskapr. Meaning "tract of land with its distinguishing characteristics" is from 1886.
landscape (v.)
"to lay out lawns, gardens, etc., plant trees for the sake of beautification," by 1916, from landscape (n). Related: Landscaped; landscaping.

双语例句


1. Wind turbines are large and noisy and they disfigure the landscape.
风力涡轮机个头大、噪音响,还会破坏周边风景。

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2. He was lost in the con-templation of the landscape for a while.
有一会儿,他怔怔地注视着周围的景物。

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3. The Shropshire landscape was an influence on Owen too.
什罗普郡的风景也对欧文产生了影响。

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4. The Memorial seems almost ugly, dominating the landscape for miles around.
那座纪念碑耸立在方圆数英里景致之中显得近乎难看。

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5. The landscape is broken only by a string of villages.
这片风景中只有一排村庄。

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