单词 | ranch |
释义 | ranchWord family adjectiveranchednounrancherrancheriarancherierancheroranchingranchrancho , House Agricultureranch /rɑːntʃ $ ræntʃ/ ●●○ noun [countableC] 1. TAa very large farm in the western US and Canada where sheep, cattle, or horses are bred 〔美国西部和加拿大的〕大牧场 2. DHHa ranch house 平房;牧场主住宅 Examples from the Corpus ranch• He and a Boston friend bought a ranch in Laramie and raised sheep, then steer, on the open range.• We lived first on a ranch.• a four-bedroom ranch• a cattle ranch• Robert Daley settled the property in 1869, first as a horse and cattle ranch and then as a dairy operation.• We saw small towns and huge cities, chicken farms and horse ranches.• I sail past a little development of off-the-shelf ranch homes.• The bloody siege of the ranch complex in Waco has already left at least six police and cult members dead.• Over the years, the ranch shrank. (1800-1900) Mexican Spanish rancho, from Spanish, “camp, small building, small farm”, from French ranger “to put in a row” |
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