landscape
- 英式英标[\'lænd\'skep]
- 美式音标[\'læn(d)skeɪp]
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
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.
中文解释
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).
实用例句
- 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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