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pas.tureH5pB:s7tFE5, $5pAs7tFLnan area of land covered in grass or similar plants suitable for animals such as cows and sheep to eat牧场The sheep were grazing on the lush green pastures. [C]羊群在青草繁茂的牧场上吃草。Some fields are planted with wheat, corn and sunflower for several years, and then returned to pasture for the cattle. [U]有些地种了几年的小麦、玉米和向日葵，然后又成了放牲畜的牧场。(fig.) A lot of military officers, scientists and engineers who used to work for the government have left for greener pastures (= better paid jobs) in the private sector. [C]很多过去的政府工作的军官、科学家和工程师现都去私人单位另谋高就。(fig. Br) He has been director of the Festival for seven years, but he's off to pastures new (Am new pastures) (= is going somewhere else) as soon as this year's Festival ends.他担任这个音乐节的导演已经7 年，而今年的音乐节一完他就要奔赴新的岗位了。(fig. infml) After thirty years of working at the same company he was put out to pasture like an old work-horse (= his employers got rid of him). [U]在同一家公司工作了30 年后，他像匹老而不中用的马被一脚踢开。"Tomorrow to fresh Woods and Pastures new" (John Milton in the poem Lycidas, 1638)“明天去寻找新的森林和牧草”（选自约翰·弥尔顿的诗歌《列西达斯》）
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