Word · Frequency #28896
swards
草皮；草根土层
swards is the plural of sward.
the surface layer of soil with grass and its roots; sod, turf
- 1.
Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.
表层长草的泥土；草皮、草地；(可数)一块这样的泥土。
- 2.
surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
含有草和草根的地表层
- 3.
An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
大片草地；草坪或牧场。
草地；草坪；表层长草的泥土；草皮、草地；(可数)一块这样的泥土。；含有草和草根的地表层；大片草地；草坪或牧场。；草地
In use
After the rain, the sward in the park felt soft and springy underfoot.
The sheep grazed slowly across the wide green sward.
We spread our picnic blanket on the smooth sward beside the river.
the sward
指特定区域的草皮。
The sward was thick and green.
那草皮又厚又绿。
a sward of noun
a sward of grass
一片草地
swards of noun
复数形式，指多片草皮。
swards of green turf
一片片绿草皮
Connections
Collocations
- green sward
- 绿草地；青翠的草地
- The sheep grazed on the green sward.羊群在绿草地上吃草。
- grassy sward
- 长满草的草地
- A grassy sward stretched to the river.一片长满草的草地延伸到河边。
- rolling sward
- 起伏的草地
- We walked across the rolling sward of the park.我们穿过公园起伏的草地。
- close-cropped sward
- 修剪得很短的草皮
- The close-cropped sward of the bowling green was immaculate.滚球草坪上修剪得很短的草皮十分平整。
- thick sward
- 茂密的草皮
- A thick sward covered the old meadow.茂密的草皮覆盖着那片老草地。
- sward of grass
Learner notes
Memory Tip
同音近 sword（剑），想象一把剑插在草皮上，sward 就是那片草皮、草地。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：literary prose、poetry、formal landscape descriptions sward 是偏文学/正式的用词，通常出现在诗歌、小说或正式的风物描写中，日常口语很少见；想表达‘草地、草坪’时，日常更常用 lawn 或 grass。
Pronunciation & Spelling
sward rhymes with ward, board, and lord (all end in /ɔrd/ in General American). Be careful with lookalikes that sound different: swarm /swɔrm/ and swarthy /ˈswɔrði/ share the swar- spelling but have different endings; guard /ɡɑrd/ has the same -ard spelling but is pronounced /ɑrd/.
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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