pasture

lawn, meadow, pasture

名词 pasture:

1. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
   同义词：pastureland, grazing land, lea, ley
2. animal food for browsing or grazing
   同义词：eatage, forage, pasturage, grass

动词 pasture:

1. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
   同义词：crop, graze
2. feed as in a meadow or pasture
   同义词：crop, browse, graze, range

1. Grazing land; pasture.
   放牧的土地; 牧场
2. Nitrate of soda may be sown on pasture that does not eat off.
   可以把硝酸钠撒在牧草还没有吃光的草地上。
3. He's pasturing his cattle on the top meadow.
   他正在高处的草地上放牛。
4. We have put our cattle out to pasture.
   我们已经把牛放到牧场上吃草去了。

pas.ture

n.（名词）

Grass or other vegetation eaten as food by grazing animals.
牧草：草食动物作为食物吃的草或其它植物
Ground on which such vegetation grows, especially that which is set aside for use by domestic grazing animals.
牧场：这种植物生长的场地，尤指开辟出来喂养草食家畜的场地
The feeding or grazing of animals.
放牧：动物的喂养或牧放
v.（动词）
pas.tured,pas.tur.ing,pas.tures
v.tr.（及物动词）
To herd (animals) into a pasture to graze.
放牧：把（牲畜）赶到牧场吃草
To provide (animals) with pasturage. Used of land.
提供牧草：为（牲畜）提供牧草。用于指土地

To graze on (land or vegetation).
（牛、羊）吃青草：使在牧场上吃草
To use (land) as pasture.
把（土地）用作牧场
v.intr.（不及物动词）
To graze in a pasture.
放牧：在牧场上放牧

<习惯用语>put out to pasture
To herd (grazing animals) into pasturable land.
放牧：把（草食动物）赶到作牧场的土地上去放牧
Informal To retire or compel to retire from work or a full workload.
【非正式用语】 退休，离休：从工作或满工作量中退下或迫使退下
来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Late Latin p3stôra
源自 后期拉丁语 p3stôra
from Latin p3stus [past participle of] p3scere [to feed] * see p3-
源自 拉丁语 p3stus [] p3scere的过去分词 [喂养] *参见 p3-

【引伸】
pas.turable
adj.（形容词）
pas.turer
n.（名词）