ploughland

1 Will your oxen of their own accord yoke themselves for the deep ploughlands and draw the earth-cleaving share through the fallow, and forthwith, as the year comes round, reap the harvest?

2 A ploughland was as much land as one plough with oxen could plough in a year.

3 Fightest thou with me because thou hopest to reign over the men of Troy, or have they given thee a choice portion of ground, ploughland and orchard, to be thine when thou hast slain me?

4 The huge horse seemed bounding over a floor of dark-red cloud, so easily he took the ploughland of spongy clay, so noiselessly his hoofs went over it.

5 It was sloping upwards, that ploughland, and the horses were over their fetlocks in the red, soft soil.

6 In Doomsday Book, Hawarden appears as a Lordship, with a church, two ploughlands—half of one belonging to the church—half an acre of meadow, a wood two leagues long and half a league broad. 

7 At last he climbed a fence, thinking to drop into the road, and found himself staggering, instead, among the iron furrows of a ploughland, endless, it seemed, as a whole county.

8 The rich, damp earth of the plains beyond Robertville, with its rank grass, its moist ploughland and groves of eucalyptus, was already left behind.

9 The abbot durst no other, there he unhooded his brother, and the child gave the abbot in hand twenty ploughlands, and afterwards they proceeded forth into London.

10 There was green grass above it, and green grass below it; and green grass and patches of ploughland all over the downs.

11 I stand on the windy uplands among the hills of Down With all the world spread out beneath, meadow and sea and town, And ploughlands on the far-off hills that glow with friendly brown.

12 Lord, it is Breton land which Duke Hod holds, and once it was rich in pasture and ploughland, but Count Riol of Nantes has wasted it.

13 Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney.

14 It is only inaccurately that we have been speaking of a virgate of 30 acres, and of a ploughland of 180 or 160.

15 After this spirited opening he consulted a sheaf of notes, and was straightway mired in a ploughland of tramway finance and sticky statistics.

16 The camp stood where, until quite lately, had been pasture and ploughland.

这个兵营驻扎的地方前不久还是一片牧场和耕地.

17 I cannot but conjecture that Mr. Wells's thinking apparatus is fitted with some such automatic appliance for soaring gaily over the snags that stud the ploughlands of theology.

18 The hours uncalculated, and the long arrears of the night, had confused my attention; the wind, the little arrows of the ice, the absence of ploughlands and of men.

19 There being little ploughland, and few woods, the Vale is only an average sporting country, except for hunting.

20 The relation between the three-field ploughland of 180 acres and the hide of 120 suggests the inference that the official assessment started from the prevalence of the three-field rotation, and disregarded the fallow.

1 可耕地

plowland

2 耕地

plow infield arable tillage tilth plowland tilled land plough Land glebe agrarian park acre furrow praedial land farmland cropland dress

3 田地

field glebe plowland Land