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acre

/ˈeɪ.kɚ/ 名词 C1

中文: 英亩

  1. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
  2. An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
  3. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
  4. A wide expanse. (informal) · I like my new house—there’s acres of space!
  5. A large quantity. (informal)

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He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end.
《The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes》,第41页 · B2
As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land on the banks of the Ohio.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第957页 · C1
Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under a heavy mortgage.
《The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes》,第39页 · B2
ROAMING BY the mountainside at sundown, a Wolf saw his own shadow become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to himself, “Why should I, being of such an immense size and extending nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion?
《Three Hundred Aesop's Fables》,第84页 · B2

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