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单词 Sod house
释义

Sod house

原声例句
啊,拓荒者!

But there's a few chunks of your old sod house left.

但是你的旧草皮房子还剩下几块。

啊,拓荒者!

The Bergsons had a log house, for instance, only because Mrs. Bergson would not live in a sod house.

例如,柏格森一家有一座木屋, 只是因为柏格森夫人不愿住在草皮屋里。

啊,拓荒者!

The homesteads were few and far apart; here and there a windmill gaunt against the sky, a sod house crouching in a hollow.

宅基地很少而且相隔很远。 不时有一座风车在天空中显得憔悴, 一座草皮房子蜷缩在一个空洞里。

英语百科

Sod house

A sod house in the American prairie, 1901
A sod farm structure in Iceland
Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900
Interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937

The sod house or "soddy" was a successor to the log cabin during frontier settlement of Canada and the United States. The prairie lacked standard building materials such as wood or stone; however, sod from thickly-rooted prairie grass was abundant. Prairie grass had a much thicker, tougher root structure than modern landscaping grass.

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