lawn

英[lɔːn] 美[lɔn]

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复数: lawns;

lawn 草坪，草地

来自古英语laune,词源同land,荒野，土地。后该词用来指荒野，杂草地，现指草坪，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.

2. He remembered mowing the lawn, lounging around the swimming pool.: 他还记得修剪草坪、在泳池边闲荡的情景。

4. He continued to mow the lawn and do other routine chores.: 他继续剪草坪，并做些其他日常杂务。

5. The Lawn Tennis Association suspended Mr Castle from the British team.: 草地网球协会暂停了卡斯尔先生在英国队的职务。